That’s just not true. If McCain had keeled over or something then his electors would have been free agents and no one would have had a majority, and it would have been a brokered convention. Chances are some consensus dark horse candidate would have emerged. Who that would have been would have been anyone’s guess, but Huckabee would have been least likely of all, since his base was so specific to himself. He wouldn’t have gotten any electors that he didn’t bring to the convention himself.
Thank you for your opinion.
The fact still remains that Romney finished THIRD.