It's Romney's blood, thanks to the McCain campaign.
Mitt Romney is attacking John McCain's campaign after Mike Huckabee's winner-take-all caucus win this afternoon.
Romney did well in the first round of balloting, with 41 percent of the vote. Huckabee had 33 percent, McCain had 16 percent, and Ron Paul had 10 percent. But reports say that McCain's campaign, seeking to torpedo a Romney win, asked the Arizona senator's supporters to back Huckabee. Romney's camp.
So West Virginia is probably the state where Huckabee has done his best among non-evangelical voters. But apparently there's no polling data of the caucus voters, so we won't know if that's the case.
(How evangelical is West Virginia? If you count members of evangelical denominations, not very. But rest assured that the country's largest religious block, "unclaimed," includes a ton of independent churches. Only 13 percent say they have "no religious affiliation." Some reports say about 44 percent of the West Virginia's population identifies as evangelical.)
Posted by Ted Olsen on February 5, 2008 5:43PM
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I have no direct knowledge of any deal or not, but it is logical for McCain's supporters to choose Huckabee as the second choice. Not just because they might think "Romney is the greater threat", but also because many of Huckabee's positions are intermediate between Romney's and McCain's. Furthermore most people (besides Romney supporters) don't like Romney that well; he has run a lot of negative ads and many view him as not so genuine.
So there was no need of a deal. Logic would dictate that McCain's supporters would go to Huckabee as the second choice.
Posted by: Robert at February 7, 2008
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