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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
West Virginia, Explained
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 1:10 PM
The Republican Party moved its convention up to today to have more of an impact, and Romney was there to court them:
The process for the allocation of the state’s delegates is a bit convoluted. County conventions were held across the state to select the 1,207 delegates for the state convention. These delegates in turn will vote today. The winner gets all 18 of the state’s 30 delegates at stake today—nine delegates will awarded based on the results of the state’s primary in the spring; three are at-large.

An interview with John McCutcheon, a state consultant for Mitt Romney, made clear why he is expected to win easily.

“We have had the only organizational presence in West Virginia to speak of,” said John McCutcheon, a state consultant for Mr. Romney. “It’s all Romney all the time.”

Huckabee and Ron Paul also spoke at the convention.

The first round of voting shows Romney leading, but not gaining a clear majority, so they're involved in a second round of voting now. It seems to me that if Romney can't win pretty clearly in West Virginia, where he was expected to win and had the only ground game to speak of, it doesn't bode well for the rest of the day. We'll see how the second round comes out.


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Joe writes: Tuesday, February, 05, 2008 2:47 PM
An Embarassing Loss for Mitt Romney
Apparently, some of the delegates left. I'm told that the final count on the second ballot is:

Huckabee 588
Romney 512
McCain 12

CNN has a slightly different total, but Huckabee has a majority either way.


02/05 02:20 PM


http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWNmN2ZkNTcyNjFjM2 FkZjc3YTMyNWU0ODNkZTFmZmM=

An embarassing loss to Mitt Romney.
Dwayne Horner writes: Tuesday, February, 05, 2008 2:24 PM
HUCKABEE WINS WV
Per FOX News, Mike Huckabee secured the WV vote by getting 53% of the vote on the second ballot. BAD SIGN FOR ROMNEY!!!
Craig writes: Tuesday, February, 05, 2008 2:24 PM
Umbelievable
McCain has studiously avoided these caucuses and conventions, pretty much ceding the vote to Romney. Romney has spent millions attempting to win these races in Maine,West Virginia, etc. Races where only 10,000 people usually take part. If he can't win big here, whats up!

Joe stop bothering with the bloggers who impinge on McCain's war record. McCain's story is known to most by now. Even his detractors get most of their info from his autobiography! I think as most do the the irrational hate has only driven away people from Romney.
Joe writes: Tuesday, February, 05, 2008 2:01 PM
McCain supporters should go to Huck
Give Huckabee the win in West Virgina! Frankly he deserves it more than Mitt Romney does.
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