McCain clinches the nomination and will be endorsed by President Bush tomorrow. Huckabee bows out, dropping this bomb.
While some Huckabee supporters were hoping that he might get a vice presidential nod this year, Huckabee says they should forget it. “We have been given every signal that is not going to be considered,” Huckabee said.
Thank God. He says he won’t run for the Senate in no uncertain terms, but don’t count that option out just yet.
On the Democratic side, Clinton wins Ohio and Rhode Island. Obama takes Vermont.
At 11:10 PM EST, with only 35% of precincts reporting in Texas and almost 16 million votes cast, Clinton is up by only 19,000 votes. It’s neck and neck there.
Cue the “comeback kid” press mania?
Even if she loses Texas I think she goes on to Pennsylvania and tries to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, especially with Obama’s recent gaffes starting to pile up. The Rezko trial could be huge. The Dems are virtually assured a brokered convention.
Alter at Newsweek says Hillary has a math problem because she could win 16 straight and still lose, but so does Obama. Use Slate’s nifty delegate counter and plug in the numbers. Using those that I have right now for today’s elections (Clinton with 57% in OH, 60% in RI, 51% in TX, and 40% in Vermont) and giving Obama 90% in every remaining contest, he still comes up with only 1,968 delegates, shy of the magic 2,025 mark.
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