Huckabee Campaign Fired Up – McCain “Inevitability” Lead To Washington Win?

J.J. Jackson* | February 13, 2008

Filed Under Eyes on 2008, General Politics, The Republicans

Calm down now, I am not endorsing Mike Huckabee. Eww. But Huckabee has a legitimate gripe here as it looks like McCain’s “inevitability” as proclaimed by the GOP elite may have been the reason for the Washington caucuses being called early.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is crying foul after John McCain’s apparent victory in the Washington caucuses on Saturday.

Huckabee’s campaign released a statement Sunday saying it will be exploring all available legal options regarding the “dubious final results.” Arizona Sen. McCain was announced as the victor in the caucuses with 26 percent of the vote to Huckabee’s 24 percent.

But Huckabee’s campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, said Luke Esser, Washington’s Republican Party chairman, chose to call the race too quickly for McCain.

Rollins said Huckabee was losing by 242 votes with 87 percent of the vote counted. He said there were another 1,500 or so votes that were apparently not counted.

“That is an outrage,” Rollins said.

Rollins said the Huckabee campaign’s lawyers will be on the ground in Washington soon to see why the count took so long, and why the vote-counting was stopped prematurely.

“It would be a disservice to every voter in Washington state to not pursue a full accounting of all votes cast,” Rollins said. “… As I said, we are prepared to go to court, and we are also prepared to take our case all the way to the Republican National Convention in September.”

I personally hate “calling” elections before every vote is counted. It’s never made much sense except to try and be first to determine something that can only be determined once every vote is counted and in at times.

However now that the ballots are officially counted, yes, McCain did come out on top. But this process should have been completed first. Before the call was made.

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