Comments on: Why McCain Was A Winner

Arizona Senator Fashioned An Unlikely Coalition To Gain Super Tuesday Victory

[tjc4usa]

Mitt Romney really hasn''t demonstrated the ability to win in key battleground states. McCain has, and so has Huckabee.

If what happened to Romney last night had happened to Huckabee, the media and the talking heads like Rush and Hannity would be shouting that Huckabee should leave the race. But will they even whisper that about Romney now? Perhaps not. But Romney ought to think very seriously about it, nonetheless. And so should everyone who claims to be determined to stop McCain.

In all those battleground states Huckabee won, it was McCain who finished in second--McCain whom he beat.

Romney is in trouble, and any objective observer knows it.

[tjc4usa]

Let''s look a bit closer at Romney''s situtation. He has thus far won in three states where he really had a big advantage:
1. Massachusetts, where he was governor.
2. Utah, where the huge Mormon population supported him.
3. Michigan, where his father was governor.

Besides those, he has mainly only won in the uncontested states, the ones where almost no one else even battled for. These include Wyoming, Nevada, Maine, Alaska, Montana, and North Dakota.

That leaves just Colorado and Minnesota, where Romney won a state that was at least marginally contested and had a reasonable vote turnout. But neither of these was a real battleground state like California, Georgia, Alabama, New York, Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, and so on.

This isn''t to say that those delegates don''t count. In one way, it is a smart strategy for him to pick up those states, and he has the money to go after them. Every delegate counts. However, the point is that his candidacy is very weak, even weaker than it appears according to his delegate count.

[edjamgra]

McCain/Huckabee 2008.

Huckabee will solidify the red states. McCain will win some of the close red states. They will get at least 60% of the electoral votes against either Hillary or Obama.

[tjc4usa]

It is laughable, after Huckabee''s strong showing last night, for someone to claim that it is still a two-man race and not include Huckabee. If you look at 2000 and 2004, George Bush was strongest where Huckabee is strongest, and Gore and Kerry were strongest where McCain and Romney are strongest. If the Republicans are going to win in November, they will need someone on the ballot who can carry the South. Romney simply can''t win in the South. For a Republican, that means a failed nomination.

McCain won a lot of winner-take-all states. However, even with a whole lot more momentum that Huckabee, he lost to several states in the South. He won Oklahoma by only a small margin and Missouri by an even smaller margin (less than 9,000 votes)-- and in both cases, Huckabee, not Romney, was the person on his heels. If it is true that Romney and Huckabee are splitting the conservative vote, then it is clearly Romney, not Huckabee, who should drop out of the race.

[billpl-2009]

Romney got 90% in Utah
but only 51% in his home state of Massachusetts

.....Hmmm, wonder what''s the problem here?

[incog-nito]

Doesn''t matter who wins the presidency in November. It''s going to be a liberal any way you look at it.

[dawnking2]

McCain and Romney did well in the states in which the residents wear shoes.

[taddles-2009]

"THOUSANDS OF REGISTERED REPUBLICANS WERE ILLEGALLY SWITCHED TO INDEPENDANTS, THEREFORE COULD NOT VOTE.

Posted by bizzzz at 12:26 PM : Feb 06, 2008"

Uh huh...the cool-aid''s a bit strong today. So...bizzzz....where''d you get this little gem of information? Got a source other than your a$$? How about checking a bit before puking on the page.

The Republican party changed their rules LAST YEAR to allow only registered Republicans to vote in the California Republican primaries. No one switched anyone to Independent, those Independents who wanted to vote for Ron Paul were informed MONTHS ago that they needed to register with the Republican party if they wanted to vote for him. Independents who showed up to the Republican polling places to vote in the primary were turned away. It''s called a CLOSED PRIMARY you dolt.

[bizzzz-2009]

REPUBLICAN VOTERS WERE COMPLETELY RIPPED OFF DUE TO RAMPANT VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THOUSANDS OF REGISTERED REPUBLICANS WERE ILLEGALLY SWITCHED TO INDEPENDANTS, THEREFORE COULD NOT VOTE.
WE ARE NOW LIVING IN AN SOCIALIST OPPRESSIVE NATION WHERE OURS RIGHTS ARE CLEARLY BEING VIOLATED.

[smpf38]

It is a two-man race ... barely. (I disagree with Huckabee that he is still a Presidential hopeful.)

McCain has 12 states, Romney 11 states, and Huckabee has 6 states. But McCain won delegate rich states (some of them winner takes all), so it gives him a very big lead.

Huckabee cannot win outside of the South. There is no way he could be the GOP nominee for President because his support outside the South is quite low. He simply could not catch up.

Romney cannot win as long as the conservatives split Huckabee/Romney. So, really it is a one man race. McCain wins.

[likeitis5050]

McCain taking the lead is a shoo-in for Obama. McCain is deluded if he thinks he''s really running anything. He should have run in the party of his authentic beliefs from the very beginning. But this is politics...never let them know where you''re really coming from until it''s too late to do anything about it. Hot heads do not need to have access to the policies and plans that can ruin what little remains after the Bush/Clinton eras. McCain is a loose cannon....however running against Obama secures Obama''s win.

[seanckri]

Very informative, I hope Rush can get use to Mccain being his conservative choose in Nov. GO Huchabee!