Mike Huckabee has scored a second win for tonight, taking the Louisiana primary by a very narrow margin of 44-43%. However, because no candidate recieved 50% of the vote, tonight’s vote is merely a beauty contest and no delegates will be awarded. Louisiana has a complicated three-step process for picking delegates.
John McCain and Ron Paul did well at the state’s recent convention to select delegates, with this primary not having an impact, it looks like McCain is still in a good position to wrap up many of the state’s actual convention delegates. However, the primary victory for Huckabee is certainly a momentum boost.
At this point, Huckabee is still mainly asserting himself as a Vice-Presidential candidate. It would be practically impossible for him to win the nomination. In fact, earlier tonight, CNN showed a simulation that showed what would happen if Mike Huckabee won every single remaining Republican primary by a 50-40-10 margin over McCain and Ron Paul. The result: John McCain still wins enough delegates to comfortably capture the nomination.
The results of the Washington caucus are still pending, as McCain leads Huckabee there by only 2% with 85% of the votes counted. We’ll have to wait and see what happens there.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:52 am
You are forgetting that John McCain needs all the delegates to win the nomination! It will come down to the convention to decide in the end. Mike Huckabee is coming back and is the only one who can beat Obama head to head.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Forgetting what they say they will do, would someone tell me what difference it will make in the real world actions of our next President, if Hillary or Obama are elected?….Or if McCain or Huckabee are elected? Then please tell me what it matters, if Obama or McCain are elected. What will they actually do differently?
I sincerely do not know. I know what they say. I just do not believe they will act differently. They are all hypocrites in my opinion, who could not tell the truth if our lives depended on it! If any of the top 4 are elected, then we will stay in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will go broke with deficit spending, inflation is going to go through the roof, and the Patriot Act will NOT be repealed. So what difference does it really make if any of the top 4 are elected?
Why is it so hard for people to see why Ron Paul supporters will not give up?
We simply have no other rational choice. It is all really quite simple if you look at it logically.
Pray for a brokered Republican convention to save us from Obama/Clinton AND McCain.
By the way watch Louisiana. A legal challenge is underway. Ron Paul may beat McCain and has already beaten Huckabee in the caucuses; since no one had more than 50% then ALL delegates will be awarded on February 16 based on the earlier caucus. Paul may win that caucus vote yet!
The 500 Ron Paul delegates that registered before 11/30 but were denied voting status because the state GOP had old 11/1 eligibility lists. Hopefully the courts will decide soon.
Interesting times. In fact this could end up being as interesting as Bush winning in Florida in 2000!
As I said, pray and vote for Ron Paul.
Go Ron Paul and his message, for now and forever!
February 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
McCain needs to win all of what delegates? He’s at around 750. The goal is 1,191. Huckabee has 217. It’s not a close contest.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
This is a shame that Huckabee couldn’t garner more support early on. I really liked him. And hopefully someone with Ron Paul’s beliefs will run in 2012, because that man would have changed America.