Because of NY, NJ and CT.
He was expected to win those easily, and a lot more, and he isn’t looking good at all on the rest.
McCain was supposed to wrap it up tonight, now he’s in a 3 way race.
McCain and Huckabee are performing political ‘69’. Its a 2 on one race. Forget any fantasies of a brokered convention.
McCain's is going to have a lot of separation between his #1 spot and Romney and Huckabee jostling for a distant second. This was a big win for McCain tonight because he Romney wasn't able to nip at McCain's heels in 2nd place. It's like the Pats winning the AFC East after about 8 games or so this season, when Romney hoped to force McCain to be worrying about the division in Week 14. McCain only has to come in 1st. Romney has a ton of distance to make up starting tomorrow. McCain can almost coast and pick up proportional delegates and win this later even if he can't win it sooner.
don’t forget campaign spending limits.
McCain is at or near the limits.
Huckabee has no money and bound by those limits too.
McCain is not as strong as the MSM projected. Remember he was supposed to get all the winner take all states.