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 complicated relationship with the U.S. Caribbean territory.

McCain’s total:  996 delegates. Mike Huckabee trails with 254 delegates.

http://race42008.com/2008/02/24/mccain-wins-puerto-rico/  2-24-2008  LJ

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 congressman and director of the Office of Management and Budget.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23317768/   2-24-2008  Michael Cooper

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.

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 primary. That event will be at the
Hayes Grand Ballroom in The Columbus Renaissance Hotel, 50 North 3rd St.

That event begins at 7:30 p.m.

 http://www.daytondailynews.com/search/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/18/ddn021908mccain.html  2-19-2008

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 received donations totaling $228,000.

Clinton’s political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/superdelegates.html  Foon Rhee  2-14-2008

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

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

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 high taxes, restoring the people’s trust in their government, and winning the war against radical Islamic extremists. It is with pride that I announce my endorsement of John McCain for president.”

http://race42008.com/2008/02/11/endorsement-jeb-bush-endorses-john-mccain/  Brett Passmore  2-11-2008

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

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 the two candidates,” Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/10/fox-exclusive-huckabee-campaign-calls-for-full-investigation-on-washington-state-results/  Fin Gomez  2-10-2008