Huckabee Gets First Blood in W. Virginia
My man Huckabee pulled off the win in W. Virginia. The first of the Super Tuesday races to be called. He gets all 18 of the delegates and another notch in the belt.
Jered was kind enough to point out that the win was partially due to some supporters of McCain switching sides so that Romney wouldn’t win. Fair enough. The part missing there is that McCain didn’t get much of the vote to begin with and Romney didn’t get enough to call it a majority and a win. So, the McCain voters swapped in the second vote and gave enough extra votes to Huckabee to win the vote. Not exactly the way it’s being portrayed. According to most MSM sources, Huckabee won only because the McCain voters switched. Not exactly true. If he hadn’t had a pretty big supply of voters to begin with, it wouldn’t have been a possibility in the first place.
Romney’s campaign is understandably upset with the loss and have gone so far as to call the McCain campaign out as “underhanded.” Well, again, if Romney would have had the votes in the first place, it wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe they should spend less time worrying about how the McCain campaign turned some lemons into lemonade and more time figuring out why a state that was supposed to be a “sure thing” for Romney turned into a count off with a second vote.
Finally, as a Huckabee supporter, I feel it my responsibility to say that I think there are a few more surprises up Mike’s sleeve. At the moment, he’s a little behind, but with this win in WV, I think he could gain a little more momentum in the south. And of course, my conspiracy theory radar just went off and thinks that the MSM is playing up the McCain voter migration in order to offset some of that momentum. Or as a last ditch effort to head off what could end up being a very good day for Huckabee.