Well, it has been good experience blogging here at WAforMike. You, our visitors, have been great. The turnout to this blog has been amazing, with thousands of visitors since this blog was started exactly 2 months ago, the 4th of January, just hours after Huckabee won Iowa. We had great hopes that a great, conservative, Christian canidate would win the nomination and bring true change to America. Not empty hopes such as the kind Senator Obama offers, but TRUE, solid hopes for change. Sadly, this has not happened. With 64% of the results in from Texas, Governer Mike Huckabee has lost to Senator John McCain. We here at WAforMike commend Mike Huckabee for a well run campaign. We will throw our weight behind Senator McCain’s campaign now, and recommend that you do so also. Remember, Senator McCain may be more liberal than some of us like, however, he is still much better than either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton.
We are now blogging a new website, www.trueobamafacts.com, and encourage you to visit the site, and pass out the link to everyone you come in contact with.
Two new polls in Texas from ARG and POS show a 6 and 4 point lead for Senator McCain in Texas.
As Gov. Huckabee said in his email yesterday, Texas is the place to fight for the nomination. These leads are small considering the attention the media has been heaping on Senator McCain as the “frontrunner.”
Here are a couple of red states we might mention, where Senator McCain had a similar lead:
Georgia won by Gov. Huckabee
Tennessee won by Gov. Huckabee
Alabama won by Gov. Huckabee
Louisiana won by Gov. Huckabee
Kansas won by Gov. Huckabee
How did we win? We never gave up. We made calls, we emailed friends and family, we waved signs, we handed out literature, we ran television ads (thanks to your generosity) and we won.
The first question I am often asked these days is: “Why are you still running for President?”
It is because I believe that I am the best candidate to represent you in the fall against the Democrats. Why? Because I have core conservative beliefs that I have never wavered from:
I believe in the Human Life Amendment and I will fight for it from Day 1 of my Presidency.
I believe in the Marriage Amendment.
I believe in massive tax reform and am an advocate of the FairTax.
I believe that President Bush’s tax cuts should be made permanent.
I believe in the Surge, our troops and General Petraeus.
I believe the 2nd amendment is one of the best ways to protect us from tyranny and I will work tirelessly to protect it from activist judges.
I believe in real border security and have proposed a detailed 9 point plan to secure our borders.
I believe the best judge is a conservative judge that won’t legislate from the bench.
These are some of the reasons why I am running for President and let me also say that YOU are another reason. I am running to give you a voice in the process. To lift up your voice with mine and to tell our Party and our government that we need to do better. We need to think big and fight for our ideas.
There’s lots of voting left to be done before our Republican Party’s nominee is decided.
Huckabee lost by about 9% with 98% counted. We would have liked to win, but it is not that bad in a state where he was supposed to loose by 30%!
UPDATE: 6:30PM - PST
Huckabee is now tied with McCain at 46%! 36% counted.
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The Live Ticker at News.AOL.com has McCain at 47% and…. Huckabee at 45% with only 33% of the votes counted! Huckabee was supposed to loose by double digits, and most polls had him loosing by 30%!
Nearly seven in 10 voters in Virginia’s Republican primary called themselves conservatives. Mike Huckabee won half of their votes, including two-thirds of those who called themselves “very conservative.” Four in 10 Virginia Republican voters were born-again evangelical Christians, and they strongly supported Huckabee over John McCain. Huckabee won the votes of two-thirds of those who said they were looking for a candidate who shared their values. McCain won the votes of two-thirds of moderates and almost half of those who called themselves “somewhat conservative.”
Voters who said they listened to conservative talk radio were more likely to vote for Huckabee, while non-listeners tended to support McCain. The more often people listened to conservative talk radio, the less likely they were to vote for McCain.
The last SurveyUSA poll before Virgina’s primary:
McCain 48% (-9)
Huckabee 37% ( 12)
Eve of VA GOP Primary 2/11/08: Huckabee Closes-In On McCain: Big movement in Virginia following Mike Huckabee’s strong showing over the weekend in Louisiana, Kansas and Washington state. On the eve of the Virginia Republican Primary, it’s John McCain 48%, Mike Huckabee 37%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA tracking poll released 72 hours ago, McCain is down 9, Huckabee is up 12. McCain had led by 32, now leads by 11.
Among Conservative voters, McCain had led by 21, now trails by 5.
Among Pro-Life voters, McCain had led by 20 points, now trails by 6.
Among voters in Southeast VA, McCain had led by 28, now trails by 12.
Among voters focused on Immigration, McCain had led by 16, now trails by 17.
Among voters who attend religious services regularly, McCain had led by 24, now trails by 2.
385 Likely Voters/Margin of Error /- 5.1%
Why was the Republican party so quick to declare John McCain the winner of Saturday night’s primary election in Washington State? With 13% of the votes yet to be tallied, the call went for McCain, who was ahead of insurgent rival Mike Huckabee by just 1.8% of the votes cast.
By the time they awaited the results of the Washington contest, the American people had already learned some shocking news. Huckabee had destroyed McCain in Kansas and was projected the winner in Louisiana. A win in Washington would make it an embarrassing clean sweep over the party’s newly-anointed leader. Did this factor into the decision to prematurely call the race for McCain?
On Meet the Press, Huckabee called described the chain of events this way:
Josh Marshall and the TPM crew have been all over this one. So far, the most compelling rationale they’ve unearthed to explain the quick declaration is that the State’s Republican Party chair, Luke Esser, just got really excited. Let’s see what Huckabee’s legal team can find out.
Huckabee’s pressure has forced the state to resume counting the rest of the ballots. Don’t expect a concession speech until the last vote is tallied, and maybe not even then.
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