Huckabee gets first win of Super Tuesday, taking West Virginia

[larrymeyer]

This should make Dave55 happy

http://www.delcotimes.com/WebApp/app..._Story_1533385


Posted on Tue, Feb 5, 2008
Huckabee gets first win of Super Tuesday, taking West Virginia


CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won 18 delegates here Tuesday as backers of rival John McCain threw him their support to prevent Mitt Romney from capturing the winner-take-all GOP state convention vote.
In first contest decided on Super Tuesday, Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, bested Romney on the second ballot with 51.5 percent of the 1,133 delegates attending the state GOP’s first-ever presidential nominating convention. Romney was backed by 47.4 percent.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who poses the biggest threat nationally to front-runner McCain, had entered the event with the largest pledged bloc and attracted the largest vote — 41 percent — on the first ballot. Huckabee captured 33 percent on the first tally; McCain, 15 percent and Texas congressman Ron Paul, 10 percent.
Because no candidate had a majority, Paul, the last-place finisher, was eliminated for the second vote. The defection by McCain’s delegates to Huckabee allowed him to prevail over Romney.
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Romney, Huckabee and Paul made personal appeals to the convention before the vote.

[josh]

Maybe the people in W.Va. really are as stupid as all the jokes portray.

Well to be honest every state who has already held their primary has proven equal idiocy.

[sjl127]

This was rigged:

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/rom...008-02-05.html

And if you don't believe that, well, then I can't help you.

[TwistedCopper]

Huckabee is doing great tonight!!! He's our last chance at a solid 2nd Amendment supporter folks!

It just goes to show... polls, Rush, Hannity, and the rest of the media don't know squat.


GO HUCK!

Oh, and about the above link to the "rigged" accusation - It is clear that Romney is getting desperate. Did he rig all of them?

[rwilson452]

If I'm doing my math correctly no candidate will have a clear majority at the convention. This would cast Huckabee into the "king maker" role. no doubt he would extract something out of the candidate he backs and have it put in the party platform.

[TwistedCopper]

He took 5 states on Tues, Kansas today... hopefully LA and WA too before the night is over.

All things are possible through God who strengthens me.