You know – if Huckabee had dropped out yesterday, leaving Romney in the race against McCain, I wonder if the media would still be saying that McCain has effectively sewn up the Republican nomination. I hate it when reporters do this kind of thing. Maybe we should wait for people to actually vote.
It’s still a long shot, but still, in the delegate count, Huckabee isn’t all that far behind Romney and he has, in fact, won several states. And isn’t he in fact helped by Romney’s withdrawal, emerging as the main alternative to McCain?
Perhaps I’m biased, because I can’t stand Mitt Romney and I kinda like Huckabee — despite, y’know, Huckabee’s actual positions on the issues. I would never vote for either man, but I think Huckabee’s being treated unfairly here.
Don’t you find it just a tad disturbing that a man like Huckabee should strike you as so likable?
…”The devil hath power/To assume a pleasing shape…”
Let’s not forget Romney’s number crunching: 4.7 million votes for McCain, 4.0 million for Romney. If Romney’s supporters go to Huckabee, he’ll break the 50% (or whatever percentage) necessary to get the delegates for a number of states.
Adding Huckabee’s numbers to Romney’s doesn’t always add up to as much as mccain got, but if the races in the individual states were that close, huckabee stands to win big tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes….