Gregoire and Rossi win primary to set up rematch
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press
August 20, 2008
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In the race to challenge Barrasso, Democrats were split between two candidates -- defense attorney Nick Carter and Casper city councilman Keith Goodenough. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Carter had 51 percent of the vote to Goodenough's 49 percent. The difference was 353 votes out of 24,193 cast.
Carter and Goodenough both said they were waiting for an official vote count. The winner in the general election will fill the remaining four years of Thomas' term.
Enzi will be challenged in November by Democrat Chris Rothfuss, an instructor at the University of Wyoming, who beat Al Hamburg, a retired house painter.
Wyoming has not sent a Democrat to the Senate in more than 30 years, so whoever emerges from the Democratic primaries will face an uphill battle in November.
Wyoming voters also gave former State Treasurer Cynthia Lummis the nod in a four-person Republican primary for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House.
"The effort around the state has been magnificent. There have been people who've set up lemonade stands at Little League games supporting Lummis for Congress," Lummis said from a bar in Casper, where she and her supporters were following the election results.
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