Tuesday, February 5, 2008

And the first winner is ....


The first winner of the the day has been declared ... or has he? West Virginia held their state convention today. Romney, Paul, and Huckabee showed up and spoke. Romney had the most support. The way this work is as follows. There were some 1206 delegates at the state convention and after the speeches they voted. The twist is that the winner has to get at least 50% of the vote. Well after the first vote Romney had 41% and Huckabee had 33% Paul had 10% and McCain had like 15%. Well Paul was eliminated and they had to vote again. Supposedly the McCain camp called their men in West Virginia and told them to switch their votes from McCain to Huckabee to stop Romney. So when the second votes were cast Huckabee won 52% to 48% so Romney lost by 4% to the combined voters of Huckabee and McCain. I guess this just goes to prove what Romney has been saying. A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. McCain continues to show that he will resort to anything to secure the nomination, that includes very dirty politics. Many people continue to lash out against McCain. James Dobson, chairman of the Board of Focus on the Family said today "If McCain is the nominee we will have the worst choice for President in history, and I will not vote." This is just the latest of many influential people to "anti-endorse" McCain. Romney continues to have the most support among conservatives. Get out and vote for him! There is still a lot of Super Tuesday left! One good thing about Huckabee winning in West Virginia is that we all know Huckabee has no shot, so anywhere that McCain doesn't win is a good thing for Romney.

6 comments:

Kristalyn said...

wow...I can't believe that that happened! That is SUCH dirty politics...Romney is obviously the best choice!! That makes me so mad. I'm definitely going to our caucus!!!(and so is Mason!)

Anonymous said...

Now it's just to hope that the rest of America sees that McCain is just an average dirty politition before the day is out.
WV was rightfully Romney's, but awesome post.
If McCain wins the Republican nomination, I just might write in Romney for the general election, lol.

Katie said...

I can't even believe this! It makes me so mad that that is even legal. Romney should have gotten those votes.

Annie said...

He is so dirty. It was very evident when he brought up the timetables right before Florida. I think Romney did a good job of sticking it to him at the debate, but the damage had been done.

Kristin. said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23017706/

kristin.

Babzanne Barker said...

McCain really wanted to make sure Romney did not win one of the first announced contests of the day.