[Wallaby]

More links and background to this story can be found at Washington GOP stops count, declares McCain winner.

[coramdeo]

For those of you who miss, Al Gore, he’s back!!!!!!!!

[Billg64]

oh no Mikey, you mena the gop and your good buddy john have trained their sites on you? Darn there goes that vp slot

lol you chump

[Moose4]

Eh, if it’s really that tight, why not investigate? Especially if Huckabee’s campaign is willing to pay for an investigation or recount or whatever they do in those caucii. As long as the taxpayers don’t get stuck with the bill, there’s no harm in it.

}:-)4

[Diogenesis]

Did Fox news really remove its head from Romney's rectum?

About time they covered other candidates.

[ari-freedom]

Ed don’t do this. You have nothing to gain from this...and you won’t get the Nobel prize either.

[UCANSEE2]

“You never announce a vote, in my 40 years of politics I have never know anybody to announce a vote count before the vote is counted.”

Well, ED, you need to get around a little more.

[NoGrayZone]

(puts on tinfoil hat).....

Is this part of the “play” or is it real?

[GlennBeck08]

Attaboy, Huckabee. Even though I don’t support Huckabee, if only 200 votes seperate he and McCain he’s doing the right thing.

[GinaLolaB]

I live in New York and I think that the Republican "Machine" in NYS actually fixes the voting machines for the primaries. My personal un-favorite was when Buchanan was running and Dimato fixed it so that the candidates were not listed on the voting machines but their Delegates were. Nobody knew what the heck was going on. The elderly voters were very confused. The delegates for Dole were very well known so of course he won.

[BenLurkin]

Is this true? Only a 200 vote spread or 26% to 24%?

[Perchant]

There are actually people in this thread who approve of this dirty McCain trick. Tells you what McCain is all about.

[Jo Nuvark]

God bless Huckabee for calling out the State
of Washington on election corruption... PING!

[niteowl77]

I don't care for Huckabee (and I still think he's in collusion with McC), but this doesn't sound right. Until this election cycle, I felt that the GOP (except for Nixon-like moments) was either too honest or too inept to be genuinely criminal.

Mr. niteowl77 (now standing outside the GOP... and on the RIGHT side)

[montag813]

Caucuses are corrupt, coercive and un-American. They should be banned outright. Whether it is manipulation in WV or WA, or whether it is blackmail of Culinary Worker underlings by Obama-supporting supervisors in Vegas, all votes should be One Man, One Vote, Secret Ballot.

[Red_Devil 232]

Somebody please explain how the voting was stopped? No voting was stopped. Could it be they just slowed down the immediacy of the vote counting process?

[I.D.E.A]

I voted in the WA caucus yesterday. After I left I realized that they had counted the ‘sign in sheets’ and reported those results to us rather than the actual count of delegates who were elected by each precinct. I thought it was each precincts elected delegates that would be counted, rather than a counting of every persons personal choice for President whether they were a delegate or not.

[Hoodat]

What did you expect from King County?

[lilylangtree]

I don’t blame Huckabee. After the 2004 election, I question anything coming out of WA State.

[so_real]

200 vote difference with 13% of the votes left uncounted and they stopped the count? That’s not just irresponsible; that’s crazy criminal! I’m sure Esser just did what he thought was best “for the greater good” ... but doesn’t that just typify the liberal point of view that they know what’s best for all the sheeple? I’d demand a recount too. It’s a dirty trick that makes me all the less “Republican”. Anybody here who thinks it’s okay to have their vote skipped, chime in. I, for one, would *want* mine counted. Get ‘em, Mike.

[jer33 3]

Unfortunately after Hunter withdrew I have no horse in this race; however, I stand with “Just count the votes!”