Fla Away
Fox calls it for McCain in Florida. Hill takes the Dem beauty pageant. Rudy out, with a wet kiss for McCain:
John McCain pulled out a win in a squeaker of a Republican presidential primary contest in Florida Tuesday, besting archrival Mitt Romney and leaving Rudy Giuliani’s presidential ambitions in doubt.
Hillary Clinton also handily won the largely ceremonial Democratic contest.
The primary was the last major opportunity for candidates to pick up momentum going into Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, when 24 states hold primaries and caucuses for both parties.
With 72 percent of precincts reporting, McCain had 36 percent and Romney 31 percent, followed by Rudy Giuliani with 15 percent, Mike Huckabee with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 3 percent.
Among the Democrats, Clinton had 50 percent in Florida, followed by Barack Obama at 33 percent and John Edwards at 15 percent, with 73 percent of precincts reporting.
So McCain goes into Super Tuesday with the mo, and Hill comes back ahead of it. But it’s still Super Tuesday, as as the delegate counters have been saying, maybe not even then. Especially with moves on unassigned delegates likely.
Her’s Podhoretz saying essentially the same thing.
Local Fox affiliate now reporting that Rudy’s out, will endorse McCain. Not much out yet but it’s been anticipated. So does that make a difference? … Super Tuesday. Meanwhile, so much for Rudy’s all-Florida strategy. That turned out to be only slightly less ineffective than Thompson’s no-campaign strategy.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:04 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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