Talk:United States Senate elections in Wyoming, 2008

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[edit] Craig Thomas' death, vacancy of the seat, resultant election

It seems extremely likely that the election to fill Craig Thomas' unexpired Senate term will be held in 2008, at the same time as Mike Enzi's re-election bid. This will probably be a bit of a headache to write about on Wikipedia; I'm trying to look up what the provisions for vacancies in the Wyoming constitution may exist and etc. Anyone want to help? --JMurphy 05:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Unmerge

Result: Keep Merged--Dr who1975 (talk) 17:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
I propose that whatver decision is reached at Talk:United States Senate elections in Mississippi, 2008 should also be applied to this article. Please go to the discussion there and chime in.--Dr who1975 (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep Merged--Unlike the Mississippi special election, there is no controversy concerning the special election in Wyoming. State laws concerning senate vacancies vary from state to state. There is no dispute as to the November special election in Wyoming. On the other hand, the courts will decide in Missisippi if the special election will be held in March, as the Missisippi attorney general would like, or in November which Missisippi's governor originally set. Steelbeard1 (talk) 02:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
That does appear to be in keeping with wikipedia precedent... such as Texas's 22nd congressional district elections, 2006 where there was an election for both the last 4-6 weeks of the current term on the same day as an election for the next term so I agree.--Dr who1975 (talk) 15:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

As the original proposer seems to agree to keep merged article, consensus has been reached. Steelbeard1 (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deadline to file for candidacy?

When is the deadline for candidates to file in Wyoming? Right now the article is quite fragmented with separate sections for each party and each race. We don't have formal lists of candidates yet. Once we find out more about who's running and who's not running, we can rewrite the article. Steelbeard1 (talk) 16:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New proposal to split into separate articles for the regular and special election.

Now that candidates' headings have been inserted into this article, I've noticed how awkward the article looks. Should this article be split into two articles? One for the special election for Barasso's seat and the other for the regular election for Enzi's seat. Steelbeard1 (talk) 19:13, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

This "awkwardness" was caused by your recent edits. I think you made "a mistake" (because I know you would never do it intentionally to force a split debate). The candidate sections should be sub headings of thier respective elections, and it is no longer necesaary to have individual Republican/Democrat sections in the main descriptions if you are going to have candidate sections... I know of no other article on wikipedia that does this. I have fixed the sub sections...let me know what you think? I would also request that if you revert my reecent changes that you also revert your recent changes that precipitated mine and we debate both headings and spliting the page here.--Dr who1975 (talk) 20:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Oppose The article is not very long to begin with plus the races are on the same day in the same state Gang14 (talk) 17:22, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Oppose Short article, capable of stating the details without impediment. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 20:58, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Oppose, reader is well served by being able to learn about contemporaneous elections that might otherwise be confused with one another in one article, with a lead section that explains the differences. -Pete (talk) 21:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Oppose, for reasons above. I also don't want to see two links to Wyoming in the Senate section of the 'US elections, 2008' template - too confusing. Flatterworld (talk) 20:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)