“The only hitch? The state chairman had already declared John McCain the winner last night, with only a 242 vote lead. In a written statement last night, Esser said, “Congratulations to Sen. McCain for a hard-fought win, his second caucus victory in the 2008 presidential nomination process. And congratulations to Gov. Huckabee for his strong second-place finish.”
Huckabee campaign lawyer Lauren Huckabee (daughter-in-law of the candidate), who is skeptical of the fairness, asked for a lawyer to monitor the resluts.
The state GOP denied the request and hung up on Lauren Huckabee, according to the campaign. “
excerpt http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/10/politics/fromtheroad/entry3813882.shtml
BEFORE they finished counting, Esser declared McCain a winner. Washington State counted 87% of the votes in a couple of hours, but can’t count 13% of the votes in a couple of DAYS.
KEEP IN MIND, Huckabee was only about 200 votes behind.
What bothers me about the slow count, is that if it is Huckabee in Washington State, he would win THREE out of three, rather than TWO out of THREE, which would give him more momentum for tonight’s primaries. But it’s too late for that now. That’s why I’m suspicious.
I think McCain’s momentum, winning the primaries in the early states, is what helped him take off, even though in some of the early states, Dems or Independents could vote (and they tend to vote for McCain).
Now YOU have been educated. It’s about MOMENTUM with the Washington State debacle.
Well, clearly CBS never gets it wrong. And Huck wouldn’t lie. /s
I don’t know how to post links, but go to wsrp.org & look at the news release that the state republican party released, it pretty much explained it all. All “votes”**** have been counted, other than 4 counties have to retabulate their results because the caucus leaders in those counties counted the preference of every individual who attended the caucus, instead of just the delegates preferences. It is clear & obvious that McCain “won” the meaningless poll of delegate preference, so is Huck an idiot, or a liar? I’m pretty sure he’s the latter. As evidenced by many other facets of his candidacy.
Oh, and the reason this bothers me so is because ridiculous, false accusations such as this water down the TRUE & SERIOUS vote fraud that we experienced here in 2004. I find him despicable for this.