You call what just happened a TWO MAN RACE?
That was a 3 on 1 PILEON, and do you think the WV voters were accurately repesented by how their delegates behaved?
As it turns out, the majority of West Virginia delegates were "Anybody But Romney" voters, like me.
If Romney had been the 2nd choice of some of the McCain people, he could have gotten to 50%.
But the majority of delegates were opposed to Mitt Romney and would rather have Huckabee.
That's exactly how the process was set up, to prevent someone like Mitt sneaking away with a victory in a multi-candidate field.
This happened to our conservatives in our 1st district convention in Virginia. The leading conservative had the most votes in the 1st round, but after each round a few people left, and the most conservative guy wasn’t friends with all the other candidates, so in the end the last two other candidates standing made a deal and won the nomination for one of them.
Romney needed to have a majority show up, and he was a little short. Of the people that showed up, a majority opposed him. A majority didn’t support Huckabee either, but McCain’s people are certain that Huckabee is not a threat, so it wasn’t hard to get them to vote for Huckabee.