I'm traveling for work and can only get updates via BlackBerry (though I am 3 hours behind, so at least I can watch speeches at early dinner time). Watching the Republican results, I wonder if Mitt Romney is going to endorse anyone at all. I think the initial presumption in the press was that he would fall in line with McCain. Now watching the results of the last few days, I wonder if he will.
Now, I don't think Huckabee is a favorite of the establishment, but I also don't think they hate him as much as McCain. Huckabee's support comes from the most committed of Republican base voters, while McCain seems to be losing his core constituency to Obama. While I still think it might be too late to stop McCain at this point, I think everyone (including Romney) is thoroughly enjoying seeing him twist in the wind. Why should Romney upset his institutional backers by supporting McCain (who really enjoyed trashing Romney for months)? Additionally, if Huckabee wins a few more states and gets close, Romney could leverage his support (and his pledged delegates' potential support) into something big.
I guess to me, the biggest winner from the Hucka-bump is Mitt Romney (obviously post getting smoked on Super Tuesday). It would be funny if the CW reversed one more time and the Republicans headed for a brokered convention right as the Democrats coalesced around Obama. Mitt could play kingmaker.
Oh the joy. Go Obama...run up the score.
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