{"id":10983,"date":"2008-02-05T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2008-02-05T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:05:46","slug":"gop-2008-mccain-wins-west-virginia-caucus-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10983","title":{"rendered":"GOP 2008: McCain Wins West Virginia Caucus! [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain actually came in third, but by having <a href=\"http:\/\/youdecide08.foxnews.com\/2008\/02\/05\/paul-eliminated-wva-gop-convention-voting-ends-without-winner\/\">his voters swing behind Mike Huckabee<\/a> in the second round of balloting, he wins by getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/0208\/Romney_loses_West_Virginia_.html\">&#8220;Mitt Romney loses West Virginia&#8221;<\/a> headline at the outset of Super-Duper Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At HotAir, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/huckabee-wins-west-virginia-caucus-despite-surprisingly-strong-showing-by-mitt\/\">Allahpundit<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t think much of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Mitt Romney&#8217;s response, telling Camp Mitt to &#8220;get over it.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But the Romney campaign\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0was already\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0pushing the line that <a href=\"http:\/\/confederateyankee.mu.nu\/archives\/254025.php\">&#8220;a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain,&#8221;<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0so it makes perfect sense for them to use the proof as counter-spin while the polls remain open in most of the other Super-Duper Tuesday states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain actually came in third, but by having his voters swing behind Mike Huckabee in the second round of balloting, he wins by getting the &#8220;Mitt Romney loses West Virginia&#8221; headline at the outset of Super-Duper Tuesday. At HotAir, Allahpundit\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t think much of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Mitt Romney&#8217;s response, telling Camp Mitt to &#8220;get over it.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 But the Romney campaign\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0was already\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0pushing the line that &#8220;a vote for Huckabee is a vote for<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10983\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}