Super Tuesday - Republican Party
This post is part of a two part series. Neil Kelty will be commenting on the Republican Primaries while Patrick McAlister will soon follow with the Democratic Primaries.
If you didn’t notice, yesterday was Super Tuesday. The big news yesterday was the “Huckacomeback.”
Mike Huckabee was considered to be the John Edwards of the Republican Party. You know, the I’m in the race, but not really type of candidate. The only problem with that notation is that Huckabee nearly won several states. His big loss was Missouri, that hurt. Big time. Those 58 delegates actually put him 116 behind where he would have been. (I guess if you want to be all mathematical you could say 58, but since Huckabee could have received them and now McCain has, I’m going with 116. It makes me feel better.)
The biggest victory Huckabee won yesterday was a chance to get back in the conversation. I predict Huckabee will surpass Romney very soon.
Nothing much changed with John McCain he is still the media-appointed front-runner. McCain had big wins in many states and supplanted himself with well over 600 delegates. This is still a far cry from those required for the nomination leaving McCain susceptible to losing his momentum.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney became his usual self yesterday. He changed positions on an issue. We’ll not really an issue. Actually, not an issue at all. Earlier in the week Romney had said there was to be no whining. And yesterday, he changed positions to whining. Romney and his campaign were complaining that McCain and Huckabee had a deal in West Virginia. All that happened was that McCain supporters realized they weren’t going to win. Therefore, the next best thing to do was to ensure that Mitt Romney didn’t win. That’s exactly what happened. Mike Huckabee scooted to sang those 18 delegates.
Ron Paul was his usual self. Low vote counts. Nobody shows up for Ron Paul, except on the Internet. Just think, if we elected Presidents via Facebook we might be saying President Paul. That might be a little scary for many mainstream Republicans.
Stay tuned for Patricks analysis of the Democratic Day on Super Tuesday (or Super Duper Tuesday if you are a WOWO listener in Fort Wayne).
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4 Responses to “Super Tuesday - Republican Party”
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Since McCain is ahead (and will probably win, but I’m not hoping for it), the Democrat will mostly likely win the election. well over a majority of the voting population is against the war (on the last statistic I checked. Please, correct me if I’m wrong). McCain is war, war, war. All the Democrat would have to do is say “war” one less time, and they would get presidency.
Poor Republican party…
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Exactly, I’m a war supporter. But I can go with Barack’s plan of being careful getting out. I realize we need to get out, but I think we need to get out by setting milestones and bringing a strong government to Iraq through economic and political development.
People don’t realize, we screwed up the economics and politics more than we did the military portion of the war.
Thank you Dick Cheney.
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Huckacomeback….lol.
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Yes, it might be a little scary for mainstream Republicans if we actually voted for someone who has read the Constitution. If the people want a third term for Bush (McCain), then so be it.
Chris Humbert
February 6th, 2008 at 10:14 pm