Huckabee Wins All 18Delegates from WV

[Parche]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia's state GOP convention.



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Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday.

Huckabee bested Mitt Romney, who entered the Mountain State event with the largest bloc of pledged convention-goers. Both men and Ron Paul made in-person appeals to the more than 1,100 convention delegates attending Tuesday's convention.

But the former Arkansas governor beat his Massachusetts counterpart after delegates for John McCain defected to his side.

The first round of voting at the state convention produced no winner, but eliminated Paul after his fourth-place finish.

The results are the first from the 21 states with GOP primaries or caucuses Tuesday.

Arizona Sen. John McCain challenged his remaining rivals for control of the Republican presidential race Tuesday in primaries and caucuses from Connecticut to California. Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama vied for delegates in a grueling campaign with no end in sight.

After an early series of low-delegate, single-state contests, Super Tuesday was anything but - primaries and caucuses spread across nearly half the country in the most wide-open presidential campaign in memory.


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McCain was the Republican front-runner, all but unchallenged in winner-take-all primaries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and his home state of Arizona.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, struggling to sustain his candidacy, concentrated on Missouri and California as well as several caucuses states.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee concentrated in a swath of Southern and border states. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had the fourth spot on the ballot.

In the first contest decided Tuesday, Huckabee won all 18 delegates at the West Virginia GOP convention. Romney had hoped to claim victory there, but with McCain trailing, his backers switched their support to Huckabee to deprive Romney of the win.

[Bucky]

1. Huck & McCain have been helping each other out since Iowa

in some ways it's nice to see the Republicans rejecting their insane and totally phony candidates in favor of their "sane but just totally wrong about everything" candidates.

[TwilightGardener]

2. I see it the opposite--the insane are outflanking the only sane one. But

all will lose, in November.

[Parche]

3. looks like it

I want to see a 3way tie!!! Get the Repubes fighting amongst themselves!! :woohoo: :hi: