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McCain cuts deal with delegates to hand WV victory to Huckabee
SmallGovTimes.com ^
| February 5th, 2008
| SGT News, SmallGovTimes.com
Posted on 02/05/2008 12:58:25 PM PST by sdnet
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee enjoys the first victory on Super Tuesday for the Republicans as he takes all 18 delegates in the state of West Virginia, winning 52% of the vote, although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side.
Mitt Romney finished second with 47% of the vote, followed by McCain at 1%.
Rumors are circulating that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to defect over to Mike Huckabee's side as to avoid a Romney victory. Nationally, McCain is significantly ahead of Huckabee and can afford giving the state's 18 delegates to Huckabee, but certainly not to Romney, who was originally in the lead when polling began in West Virginia by a wide margin and trails McCain nationally by only 17 delegates.
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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: collusion; corruption; fred; gopcoup; government; huckabee; huckbigotry; mcamnesty; mccain; mcpain; mcshamnesty; outrage; politics; rino; wambulance; wv2008
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posted on
02/05/2008 12:58:27 PM PST
by
sdnet
To: sdnet
The funeral bell is tolling...for the Republican Party.
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posted on
02/05/2008 12:59:38 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(Desperately seeking a conservative candidate.)
To: sdnet
Keep the news to only McCain getting 1 percent.
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posted on
02/05/2008 12:59:40 PM PST
by
edcoil
To: sdnet
To: sdnet
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:00:38 PM PST
by
gpapa
(Kill the terrorists, protect the borders, punch the hippies)
To: sdnet
This will be ignored by the MSM.
What a joke.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:00:46 PM PST
by
rightinthemiddle
(The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
To: sdnet
Will the Romney people now be saying, “a vote for McCain is a vote for Huckabee”?
No matter how you look at it. Romney lost.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:01:02 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: sdnet
Slick Willard, the smartest man in the room—any room—got outsmarted? By the Huckster?
ROFLMAO
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:01:07 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
To: edcoil
“Keep the news to only McCain getting 1 percent.”
Too late, the MSM is already interviewing the “West Virginia winner,” Mike Huckabee.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:01:10 PM PST
by
jamese777
To: sdnet
"although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side."
And Mormon Bashing.. Let's not forget that!
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:01:18 PM PST
by
Afronaut
(RIght now Ron Paul has my vote. He has become the only choice.)
To: DannyTN
To: sdnet
How democrat of him, now I’m voting for Romney.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:01:47 PM PST
by
JPJones
("You can't fight in here, this is the war room!")
To: sdnet
As already reported by Freepers. Apparently the RonPaulists went along with the game, too.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:04 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: americanophile
What was Huck promised so that he would stay in the race? I had no respect for Huck before this and now, he’s only prostituting himself.
To: sdnet
Rumors are circulating that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to defect over to Mike Huckabee's side as to avoid a Romney victory. How do you all think this kind of politicking will play nationally?
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:14 PM PST
by
chaos_5
To: sdnet
Today, I cut my affiliation with the GOP. They can go the way of the Whigs.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:15 PM PST
by
dforest
(Don't even ask me to vote for McCain, Rudy, or Huckster.)
To: americanophile
This is a joke....and the nomination process on the ‘Pubbie side has been a joke since it began.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:25 PM PST
by
Ethrane
("semper consolar")
To: sdnet
What happened here was perfectly legal and pure, hard core politics. There is no doubt now...it is out in the open...that McCain will and is colluding with Huckabee to deny Rommney any success wherever he can.
I am hoping that most conservatives will be soured by this backroom political action that reeks of collusion and manipulation...and that it will backfire on them as conservatives vote against it...today.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:27 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: americanophile
Perhaps it is not collusion as you say, but simple payback for Romney running negative ads against other candidates. While you may not like McCain or Huckabee, you can understand why they didn’t like all the negative ads being run against them.
In politics payback can be a b*itch.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:36 PM PST
by
Reagan79
(Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
To: sdnet
although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side. McCain has learned well from his master, H. Clinton. The dark side is strong in this one.
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posted on
02/05/2008 1:02:41 PM PST
by
cpdiii
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