Primaries
NY: McCain Swamps Romney
By Spencer S. Hsu
The Washington Post has called New York for Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), delivering the second biggest delegate prize of the night to the national GOP front-runner.
McCain swamped former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in the winner-take-all contest for 101 Republican delegates.
Exit polls showed McCain won New York by outpacing Romney by a wide margin among Republicans, even while lagging behind Romney among "very conservative" GOP voters by 20 percentage points.
Among the nearly half of the electorate with positive views of the Bush administration's policies, Romney and McCain ran neck and neck, but McCain held a nearly 3 to 1 advantage among those who take a negative outlook on those policies.
Republican turnout was strong but dampened by the decision by former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to drop out last week and endorse McCain.
Posted at 9:51 PM ET on Feb 5, 2008
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Posted by: carolm62 | February 5, 2008 10:49 PM
This is the story across the country: Romney falters and McCain rolls. I can't believe how close Huckabee is staying, though.
ST liveblog...
Posted by: parkerfl | February 5, 2008 9:58 PM
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But you note that it is not the conservatives who are voting for McCain. The conservatives are voting for Romney.
Well, if the Republican party is no longer the conservative party, I'm putting my vote with the Dems. I'm not exactly going to reward leftist Republicans with my support. It's actually a benevolent move, because the Dems will bring as much disaster as liberal Republicans, but at least the Dems would get the blame.