McCain Wins Landslide in North Carolina!
John McCain isn’t on the ropes or anything, but you’d think he would have taken all of the North Carolina vote, with some token Ron Paul resistence, of course. But there were over 130,000 votes in the North Carolina Republican primary for people other than John McCain, or, startlingly, for “no preference.”
Hey, why is nobody discussing the really big story from Tuesday. While the TV talking heads are whining about Limbaugh’s boost to one Democratic campaign or another, or camped out on the Hillary Concession Watch, they’ve ignored the big story. John McCain, after having all his opponents concede weeks and weeks ago, won the North Carolina Republican Primary in a LANDSLIDE! He got 74% of the vote. Here are those results from ABCNews:
Republican Primary ResultsTuesday, May 6
Real-time Race Results: Updated May 7, 2008 - 7:20 PM (all times Eastern Standard)
Precincts Reporting 100%
Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner
McCain 381,616 74%
Huckabee 62,798 12%
Paul 37,132 7%
No Preference 20,527 4%
Keyes 13,562 3%
The story here is that John McCain didn’t win 95% of the vote or more. He came 20% short of that total. Seems Mike Huckabee still has some following, and you can expect the 7% or so for Ron Paul, the last whack job standing. But check out that Alan Keyes! I’m thinking that might be some kind of Democratic crossover vote of people hoping to see a Keyes/Obama rematch — some Democrat who wants utter slaughter in November. Seriously, after John McCain has been on the campaign trail for practically three years, after numerous other candidates and far too many Republican debates, it is amazing to me that 4% of the North Carolina electorate chose “no preference.”
This is not the unanimous vote that McCain needs. Indeed, this vote is far from it. Yet nobody in the mainstream media has said a thing on the subject.
Edit: I was remiss in not noting that McCain also won a landslide in Indiana, with 78% of the vote. Yes, fully 22% of the Republican electorate in that state voted for someone other than McCain, the nominee. Meanwhile, 11% of Republican voters crossed over and voted Democratic in Indiana.
