Entries from February 2008

February 25, 2008

McCain 996 Delegates

On Saturday, McCain picked up all nine delegates awarded by the GOP in American Samoa, as well as the nine GOP delegates from the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Republican Party members in Puerto Rico awarded all 20 delegates at stake Sunday to Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has vowed to help resolve Washington’s [...]

February 25, 2008

Portman on the List for VP?

A few of the names being bandied about for McCain’s VP are politicians in their 40s and 50s, including Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, 47; Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, 51, whose well-timed endorsement helped Mr. McCain win the crucial swing-state’s primary; Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, 47; and Rob Portman, 52, a former Ohio [...]

February 23, 2008

Huckabee in Dayton Ohio

Governor Mike Huckabee will be in Dayton, Ohio on February 26th.  His only Dayton appearance will be at the Living Word Church, in Vandalia, from 6:30pm to 8pm.

February 19, 2008

McCain In Ohio

 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, will be at Young’s Jersey Dairy at noon Wednesday, Feb. 20, for what his campaign called a short meet-and-greet event.
Young’s, 6880 Springfield-Xenia Road, Yellow Springs, has hosted
presidential candidates and their surrogates in the past.
McCain also will be in Ohio tonight, Feb. 19, attending a party in
Columbus following the Wisconsin [...]

February 17, 2008

Democrat Super Delegates

About half the 800 superdelegates — elected officials, party leaders, and others — have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Obama’s political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005,  and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had [...]

February 16, 2008

Delegate Count as of 2-17-2008

Delegate total:

McCain 903

Romney 253

Huckabee 245

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/17/america/Republican-Delegates.php  Doug Simpson 2-17-2008

February 16, 2008

Ohio Quinnipiac General Election Poll

Quinnipiac Ohio General Election

John McCain 44%
Hillary Clinton 43%

John McCain 42%
Barack Obama 40%

Survey of 1,748 registered voters was conducted February 6-12. The margin of error is +/- 2.3 percentage points.
http://race42008.com/2008/02/14/poll-watch-quinnipiac-ohio-general-election/ Aron Goldman 2-14-2008

February 12, 2008

Jeb Bush Endorses McCain

John McCain is a patriot and devoted conservative leader,” said Former Governor Jeb Bush. “Like no other candidate in the field, John McCain has made tremendous sacrifices for this nation. He is beholden to no interest other than that of the public good. He is determined and steadfast in his commitment to reducing the burden of [...]

February 10, 2008

Delegate Count as of 2-10-2008

McCain – 12 states, 709 delegates

Romney- 11 states, 269 delegates

Huckabee – 6 states, 170 delegates

Ron Paul – 0 states, 16 delegates

1,191 delegates needed out of 2,381.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Republican_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries%2C_2008

February 10, 2008

Huckabee Challenging Washington State Results

The Huckabee campaign has called for a “full investigation” into the Washington State Caucus results, and are sending campaign lawyers to the state to help in that pursuit.
“The chairman showed very bad judgement in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less that a 200 vote margin between [...]