The conventional thinking about California is that the state’s 53 Congressional districts would split between Romney and McCain. With each district worth 3 convention delegates, the Romney camp was hoping they could scoop up a basket of delegates to remain relevant.
That doesn’t seem to be happening at all.
While the results are still coming in, and these are very early number… McCain is winning the state by more than 10% and is winning EVERY single Congressional district right now. That would give McCain a gigantic boost and effectively destroy Romney’s hopes once and for all.
Romney did what he does best today… he strung together small wins in caucus states and then tried to spin that as some great victory. But the delegate count is starting to make it clear that no one can catch McCain.
Right now, CNN projects that Romney will just fall short of 400 delegates and that John McCain should be holding over 700 after tonight. Expect Romney to reevaluate his campaign in the next couple of days.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Goodbye, oven mitt! Helloo, McJohn! Obama is on his way…on his way…