Huckabee Wins West Virginia
The first Super Tuesday results are in and Mike Huckabee is the winner in West Virginia.
On the second ballot at the West Virginia state GOP convention, Huckabee received 52% of the votes cast and will receive 18 of West Virginia's Republican delegates. The remaining 12 delegates will be allocated later; 9 during a May primary and 3 more are technically unpledged.
CBS News chief political consultant Marc Ambinder reports that John McCain called many of his representatives in West Virginia and asked them to vote for Huckabee, in order to thwart Mitt Romney on the second ballot.
The vote went to a second ballot after the first round didn't result in a majority for any of the four candidates: Huckabee, McCain, Romney and Ron Paul.
Huckabee's win is a blow to Romney, who felt he had a solid shot at winning West Virginia. Romney had this morning's trip to the state convention on his schedule for a few days and there was a feeling that an in-person visit would get him the needed 50% to win on the first ballot (Huckabee and Paul also spoke to the convention-goers today).
But Romney was unable get that win during the first voting and with a little help from John McCain in round 2, Huckabee took those 18 much needed delegates away from Romney.
It's now on to the remaining 20 Republican contests today; results will start trickling in at 7pm Eastern Time.
On the second ballot at the West Virginia state GOP convention, Huckabee received 52% of the votes cast and will receive 18 of West Virginia's Republican delegates. The remaining 12 delegates will be allocated later; 9 during a May primary and 3 more are technically unpledged.
CBS News chief political consultant Marc Ambinder reports that John McCain called many of his representatives in West Virginia and asked them to vote for Huckabee, in order to thwart Mitt Romney on the second ballot.
The vote went to a second ballot after the first round didn't result in a majority for any of the four candidates: Huckabee, McCain, Romney and Ron Paul.
Huckabee's win is a blow to Romney, who felt he had a solid shot at winning West Virginia. Romney had this morning's trip to the state convention on his schedule for a few days and there was a feeling that an in-person visit would get him the needed 50% to win on the first ballot (Huckabee and Paul also spoke to the convention-goers today).
But Romney was unable get that win during the first voting and with a little help from John McCain in round 2, Huckabee took those 18 much needed delegates away from Romney.
It's now on to the remaining 20 Republican contests today; results will start trickling in at 7pm Eastern Time.
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See all 46 CommentsHuckabee scores 100% in the value voter guide they issued while Romney''s liberal views are still showing through on abortion, human cloning, watering down the Federal Marriage act of 1996 and giving the government authorization to take any American''s property if they choose so.
Dr. James Dobson and Tony Perkins and many other huge National Right to Life groups are supporting Mike Huckabee for President.
Don''t let the Republican party fall in the trap of liberals. The Republican platform can not be water down with Romney''s liberal agenda.
If Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Tony Perkins of FRC are endorsing Mike Huckabee, and with the million member supporters they have through the last 20 years, the conservatives are rallying around Huckabee for true conservative values.
He is solid and has a plan lined out- he will not waver with the opinion of the poles, but will stay true to his word and take America back to greatness.
He is well rounded in every area and understands every walk of American life, he is not running for his gain but for ours as a nation and that is something to consider when voting this year.
Romney is the most qualified for the presidency based on his education, experience, wisdom and integrity alone, but he also has something the other Republican candidates lack... Romney has decorum!
Consider McCain''s horrible temperament and Huckabee''s goofiness and self-righteousness. How can any Republican vote against Romney? He would make such a great president!
Thank you for the tip to go to FactCheck.org I did so and strangely enough, found numerous articles about Huckabee''s distortions of Romney''s record and nothing about Romney''s distortions of Huckabee''s. Might I suggest that before you try to use fact based websites to support your case, you might try actually reading what it says before you attempt to bluff your way through an argument.
"McCain and Huckabee had a back-room deal! No Fair! Waaah! I can''t take it! I can''t win on my own! I was double-teamed! Waah!"
FactCheck.org had to do TWO full articles on Romney''s distortions about Huckabee ALONE. Romney''s statements and ads have received many "Pinocchios" from the Fact Checker... including the only "four pinocchio" rating (last time I saw) for all the candidates...
Go ahead, everyone. Keep showing your visceral anger and your desperate, shallow and insulting attacks. It just drives more and more people to Huckabee.
...by insulting West Virginians'' intelligence.
Yes, I can see your depth of intellectual analysis here.
Same with the guy who compares Huckabee to Osama bin Laden.
This is exactly what made me take a second look at Huckabee... the franticness and shallowness of the attacks on him. People are reacting on raw emotion based on soundbite attacks... the truth about Huckabee is far different.
If that was the case, they should vote for Huckabee, who served longer as a governor than Romney; has much more solid values than Romney (the flip-flopper on all the important social conservative issues), has more character (not a vicious attacker and record-distorter like Romney), and a better temperament (positive, uplifting, good sense of humor, etc.)
No, it seems Romney''s supporters are voting for a laundry-list of conservative policy points. Romney happens to match each and every point on the list... at the moment. But too many people see through his phoniness and his flips and flops to reach these positions. We don''t buy it.
Romneybots are the ones who are blindly following their leader.
You better look up the spelling of your own name in a dictionary before explaining how other people who like Huckabee are mindless zombies.
Romney supporters don''t vote a person into the most powerful position in the country based on the person''s religion, nor by heroic acts performed over 30 years ago(no matter how heroic).
The most important things to consider from the Romney supporters perspective are the candidate''s qualifications, values, character, and temperment.
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