[mcjordansc]

Romney is not pulling away with it. The votes that have been counted are in the middle of the state - good Romney country. The polls in the panhandle are still open. This is where McCain and Huckabee will dominate. If it is this close now, McCain will win tonight and Huckabee should beat Rudy.

[longtermmemmory]

Florida Department of State
Division of Elections

2008 Presidential Preference
Republican Primary

UNOFFICIAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS
(may not include absentee or provisional ballots)
Page Generated: 1/29/2008 7:38 PM

U.S. President

	Rudy Giuliani (REP)	Mike Huckabee (REP)	Duncan Hunter (REP)	Alan Keyes (REP)	John McCain (REP)	Ron Paul (REP)	Mitt Romney (REP)	Tom Tancredo (REP)	Fred Thompson (REP)
Total	31,870	27,036	316	406	67,453	6,130	71,971	147	3,438
% Votes	15.3%	13.0%	0.2%	0.2%	32.3%	2.9%	34.5%	0.1%	1.6%

Prepared by the Florida Department of State, Division of Elections from reports submitted by the Florida Supervisors of Elections

[Reaganwuzthebest]

What about absentee ballots that supposedly favor Romney?

[JFC]

MITTENS we must keep our fingers crossed.

MOM’s FOR MITT!

[Onerom99]

Nonsense.. McCain won’t do good in the panhandle.. That’ll be Romney/Huckabee.

[JohnD9207]

FOX???????? Where are they getting their numbers out of thin air????

[Primetimedonna]

Afraid you may be right......lead is getting smaller percentage wise, not larger. Hope we’re both wrong!!

[elfman2]

“Romney is not pulling away with it. The votes that have been counted are in the middle of the state - good Romney country. The polls in the panhandle are still open. This is where McCain and Huckabee will dominate. If it is this close now, McCain will win tonight and Huckabee should beat Rudy.”

How do you know that? Intuitively, I’d expect the least liberal candidate to do the worst in the more conservative Panhandle.

[rwfromkansas]

I agree.

I am going to stop watching the results and come back at 10, but it does not look good.

Romney should be 10 points ahead at this point to win and overcome the SE corner of the state and retirement old people heaven.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Romney is not pulling away with it. The votes that have been counted are in the middle of the state - good Romney country. The polls in the panhandle are still open. This is where McCain and Huckabee will dominate. If it is this close now, McCain will win tonight and Huckabee should beat Rudy.

Yeah, that's the issue. Romney's areas are reporting now and he really needed a big lead from these areas to counter the punch McCain is about to deliver.

[Dog Gone]

The polls in the panhandle are still open.

Whatever happened to the decision not to report results until all polls in the state closed?

I thought Florida had learned its lesson, but I guess not.