Is this the unintended consequence of "Operation Chaos"?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080423/cm_thenation/45314454
McCain Loses 27% of Pennsylvania Vote
Tue Apr 22, 11:27 PM ET
The Nation -- Yes, of course, John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
But don't think that means that grassroots Republicans -- especially movement conservatives who have never really trusted the guy -- are united in their support for the senator from Arizona.
Pennsylvania had a Republican primary on Tuesday.
It certainly did not get the attention that was afforded to the Democratic contest.
But McCain had opponents on the ballot -- Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the libertarian, anti-war candidate who is still sort of campaigning, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who has folded his prayer tent. And McCain's foes won a lot of voters.
And more than 800,000 Pennsylvanians took Republican ballots. That's only about a third as many as voted in the Democratic primary, but its still a significant GOP turnout.
And a significant portion of that GOP turnout rejected the man who will carry the Republican banner in November.
McCain finished with an uninspiring 73 percent of the vote Tuesday.
Paul got 16 percent.
Huckabee's non-candidacy took 11 percent.
When all the Republican votes were counted, more than 200,000 ended up in the columns of what can best be described as the Anybody-but-McCain candidates.
Official state results: http://www.electionreturns.state.pa...n.aspx?FunctionID=13&ElectionID=27&OfficeID=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080423/cm_thenation/45314454
McCain Loses 27% of Pennsylvania Vote
Tue Apr 22, 11:27 PM ET
The Nation -- Yes, of course, John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
But don't think that means that grassroots Republicans -- especially movement conservatives who have never really trusted the guy -- are united in their support for the senator from Arizona.
Pennsylvania had a Republican primary on Tuesday.
It certainly did not get the attention that was afforded to the Democratic contest.
But McCain had opponents on the ballot -- Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the libertarian, anti-war candidate who is still sort of campaigning, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who has folded his prayer tent. And McCain's foes won a lot of voters.
And more than 800,000 Pennsylvanians took Republican ballots. That's only about a third as many as voted in the Democratic primary, but its still a significant GOP turnout.
And a significant portion of that GOP turnout rejected the man who will carry the Republican banner in November.
McCain finished with an uninspiring 73 percent of the vote Tuesday.
Paul got 16 percent.
Huckabee's non-candidacy took 11 percent.
When all the Republican votes were counted, more than 200,000 ended up in the columns of what can best be described as the Anybody-but-McCain candidates.
Official state results: http://www.electionreturns.state.pa...n.aspx?FunctionID=13&ElectionID=27&OfficeID=1