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 [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 25, 2008
McCain 996 Delegates
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 [...]