McCain has only a 4000 vote lead with 55% counted. How has he already won?
They’re basing it on exit polls and demographics of voters in various regions thus the projection.
Fox news.
If it is Michael Barone who is calling it,I would take it to the bank, anyone else, all bets are off.
The Northern districts McCain polls well in haven't reported yet. The conservatives in the South and West have voted and they voted against McCain.
He is probably too hard headed though to get the message.
In my county (Prince William), McCain won with over 50%. However, only 1500 people voted (there’s still a few precincts left to count).
In some elections, we have more than that many voters at my PRECINCT. The vote was less than 1% of the electorate.
The race is over, the republicans are sure McCain is the nominee and they aren’t coming out to vote. And even in THAT environment, Huckabee couldn’t beat McCain.
My guess is that if the race had been McCain/Romney, Romney would have won, and over twice as many republicans would have voted.
BTW, the democrats had almost 7000 votes. That’s over 4/1 over the republicans.
But our county is still republican — our county board chair won last november with almost 60% of the vote.
It is clear that more than a few republicans showed up to vote for Obama. He won 63-36%, and that’s after Hillary had an event here in our town on Sunday, and with a large hispanic population (which apparently is voting for Obama?).
I know of 6 people who voted for Romney, but he only got 69 total votes. He didn’t beat Ron Paul. Of course, Ron is still in the race and had signs all over the place here.