Those Who Can’t….

Despite being rejected by GOP primary voters as their Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee thinks they might buy his book about his failed candidacy and "offering his vision for remodeling the conservative movement." The book will be released two weeks after the November election and offer both anecdotes from his Presidential bid and his notions about the future of American politics ...

Mike Huckabee (Finally) Withdraws

Now that John McCain has mathematically sewn up the nomination even without the delegates Mitt Romney pledged to him, Mike Huckabee has given up his candidacy. Calling his White House bid the "journey of a lifetime", Huckabee spoke Tuesday night from Irving, TX commending McCain on an "honorable campaign" and emphasizing his commitment to the Republican party in the fight ...

Huckabee Praying for Brokered Convention

Mike Huckabee knows he can't beat John McCain in the primaries but thinks he might be able to win a brokered convention with a little help from Texas. In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning the GOP nomination outright, but ...

Wisconsin Primary Postmortem

Both parties had primaries in Wisconsin yesterday to go along with a Democratic caucus in Hawaii and a Republican primary in Washington state. The front-runners, Barack Obama and John McCain, won handily. So far as I can tell, the various controversies that have so fascinated the blogosphere the last few days had little to no impact on the ...

OTB Radio - Tonight at 7 Eastern

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Alex Knapp and Dave Schuler will join me to talk about the Potomac Primaries and what it means for the campaign, the Barack Obama flag flap, and whatever other topics our stream of consciousness flows into. Please join us. ...

Potomac Primary Postmortem

Last night's sweeps by Barack Obama and John McCain of the so-called Potomac Primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia were widely expected. Since public perceptions are mostly shaped by press coverage and the press uses their preconceptions as the baseline, not a lot has changed. Still, there has been some fallout. Republicans: John McCain has been ...

Potomac Primary Results

With 0% of the precincts counted, OTB projects John McCain and Barack Obama as the winner of the Potomac Primaries held today in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia based on pre-election polls. Actual returns will be posted below with some frequency as they're available. Despite my having filled out the paperwork to change my registration to my new ...

John McCain’s Vice Presidential Not-So-Short List

John Hawkins lists 24 candidates that John McCain might conceivably pick as his running mate with synopses as to the pros and cons of each. I'm rather sure the eventual choice is on that list, as there's nobody that I've heard of who isn't. Indeed, there are several people I haven't heard of on it. Frankly, the available ...

Potomac Primary Predictions

Tomorrow, voters in Virginia, Maryland, and DC will vote in what are collectively being dubbed the "Potomac Primary" or "Beltway Primary" or, for the less creative, the "Mid-Atlantic Primaries." At any rate, all indications are that front-runners John McCain and Barack Obama will win all three contests easily. Mark Blumenthal and Charles Franklin report that, McCain is looking to finally ...

Kryptoniting Superdelegates

I have to disagree with my colleague Dave Schuler on the importance of superdelegates in this election. I don't think that they'll be much of a factor in either race. Let's look at the Democrats first. It's important to remember that although right now it appears that Clinton has more superdelegates than Obama, those pledges aren't worth a Confederate ...

Super Tuesday Postmortem (Updated)

As I write this, a bit after 6 am, we don't know the results of all the Super Tuesday states. What we do know if that Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee did much better than expected but that Hillary Clinton and John McCain strengthened their perception as frontrunners by winning California and New York, the biggest prizes of the ...

Huckabee Wins West Virginia Caucus

Mike Huckabee has won the West Virginia Caucus. Republican Mike Huckabee scored the first Super Tuesday victory, winning all 18 delegates at stake in West Virginia. The former Arkansas governor won with the support of 52 percent of the state's GOP convention delegates on the second round of balloting. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in second with 47 percent of ...

Super Tuesday Predictions

After months of states racing to move their primary up to February 5th, the first day allowed for states not named "Iowa" or "New Hampshire," Super Tuesday -- or Super Duper Tuesday or Super-Duper-Mega-Jumbo Tuesday or whatever nickname one wants to call it -- is finally upon us. While this has indeed been "long primary season," given ...

A Quick Super Tuesday Prediction

I assume that James will have a longer, better reasoned post on this subject up later tonight or tomorrow. However, since I'll be working tomorrow as an election judge as I have for the last twenty years or so, I won't have the time to tack my predictions about the outcomes of tomorrow's primaries to the end of his ...

Mitt Romney’s Fuzzy Nomination Math

Hugh Hewitt looks at the Super Tuesday math and concludes that his guy, Mitt Romney, will still be very much in the race afterwards. I'm rather dubious on his "worst case" scenario actually being that but he's fundamentally right: McCain won't have the nomination mathematically sewn up at day's end. Still, it's not looking good for Flipper. Hewitt observes, ...