Energy-Rich Wyoming Friendly for GOP

MIDWEST, Wyo. -- When delegates to the Republican National Convention broke into chants of "drill, baby, drill," they could have found no more receptive audience than here in Wyoming's oil patch, where workers have been doing just that for 100 years.

"I was cheering right along with them," says oil service worker Tyson DeVeny, 26.

Like most of his colleagues, DeVeny says he will vote for Republican John McCain for president over Democrat Barack Obama, in large part because the Republican ticket is viewed as friendlier to the oil business.

"Being in the oil and gas industry, it pretty much makes my decision," says Zeb Lyon, 29, a hand at the big Salt Creek oil field here.