Early Exit Poll Data For Tonight

National Review Online ^ | February 12, 2008 | Jim Geraghty

[Oliver Optic]

Early exit poll data for tonight...

In Maryland, McCain 57 percent, Huckabee 31 percent.

In Virginia, the second wave of data shows an extremely close race, less than a percentage point between McCain and Huckabee.

But I warn you, at this point, or even a little later a week ago, the data was saying McCain and Romney were tied in Arizona, and McCain won comfortably.

No word on the Democrats yet, and no word on D.C....

[Oliver Optic]

From Jim Geraghty's The Campaign Spot blog on National Review's site. Jim is always a good source to check this time of day for leaked exit polls ... especially on the GOP side.

[pissant]

GO Huck

[dynachrome]

Early word on the dims here, if ya care:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969309/posts

[BGHater]

I wonder who the three republicans in DC voted for.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’m not surprised about Huckabee’s apparent strength in Virginia. A lot of God-fearing folks in the rural part of the state love Baptist ministers, particularly those running for high office.

[sphinx]

Hey, there were three of us at Eliot Jr. High just 20 minutes ago.

Citywide, there's gotta be at least two dozen.

[pissant]

I don’t care if Huck was a cross dressing skid row eskimo, we need to force this thing to a brokered convention.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

No word on the Democrats yet

No, no. You've already mentioned McCain just now, remember...? ;)

[Oliver Optic]

The big news here is Virginia. A few days ago McCain was leading by 56% to 25% ... now it looks like it will be nip and tuck tonight.

From a political perspective, the anti-McCain vote needs to be going to Huckabee these days ... as I can demonstrate:

If the results tonight are, say, Huckabee 47%, McCain 46% ... it shakes the GOP establishment and spawns a new round of stories about GOP conservatives not embracing McCain.

But if two per cent of Huckabee’s votes go to Fred instead ... and the results are McCain 46%, Huckabee 45%, and Fred 2% ... it is a win for McCain, and the media narrative is how he has cemented his status as the presumptive nominee. The 2% to Fred (or whomever) are assumed to be early voters or voters who didn’t know that their guy had dropped out.

If someone’s conscience won’t let them vote for Huckabee, for whatever reason, then obviously they shouldn’t. But from a purely political perspective he is the anti-McCain right now.

[Oliver Optic]

No, no. You've already mentioned McCain just now, remember...? ;)

Heh ... true that.

[Oliver Optic]

Geraghty is also reporting the possibility they may extend the voting hours in Virginia due to the icy weather.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Agreed.

[normy]

What does God fearing have to do with voting for Huckabee? What a joke!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It doesn’t matter what Huckabee’s record is with a lot of those folks. They don’t look at that. The fact that he was once a Baptist minister will trump everything else in their minds. Believe, I know...

[Oliver Optic]

Geraghty is also reporting the possibility they may extend the voting hours in Virginia due to the icy weather.

Scratch that ... apparently the polls closed on time. CNN has called Virginia for Obama on the Dem side, and says it is an unexpectedly tight race on the GOP side.

As I said, if Huckabee wins it spawns a whole new set of discussions about McCain's weakness among conservatives.

[normy]

If Huckabee was Gods candidate he would win. He wont. Gods candidate is McCain. Before that it was W. Bush, before that it was Bill and before that it was Bush II. God sets up kings and he puts them down. Huckabee is not going to win the nomination and he will never be President, therefore he can not be Gods candidate.

Hopefully the self righteous hypocrites voting for Huckabee will believes Gods word and vote for McCain, but most wont in their self righteousness, they will sit home and pout that God chose someone else than their guy.

[Tigen]

I guess you dont know any Christains.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The Possessive "s"

[JamesA]

Dude, you have me scratching my head. You said a mouthful of stuff but no substance..

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Whut? You’re not making any sense. McCain is “God’s candidate”? You gotta be kiddin’ me...!