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Washington State Results
As you know, John McCain lost two of the three contests yesterday. He was losing narrowly in Washington state and then pulled ahead by a narrow margin (less than two points) toward the end. But then with 87% of the returns counted, the Washington state GOP, which runs the caucuses stopped releasing results. That left us and a lot of other news organizations in a bit of a quandary last night since it looked like McCain was going to pull it off. But as late as 1:30 AM on the east coast promised new results kept failing to materialize.
Then over night the Washington state GOP put out a press release announcing McCain the winner based on the 87% returns. Now, I think it would be borderline for a media organization to declare one candidate a winner when the margin separating first and second was 1.8% with 13% of the results still uncounted. But for the officials holding the election to declare the result on that basis is simply bizarre. But that’s what they did.
The release says final results are not expected to be available until Monday.
Count all the votes!
UPDATE
Tip to Bill Sloat, much more information at this article and Huckabee is indeed calling for an investigation.
Everyone please email or call Luke Esser, Chairman to keep counting here in Washington. I can’t imagine why they would stop. It still isn’t over; we have the Primaries on the 19th. The turn out yesterday at the Caucuses was tremendous. We must keep up the momentum and not become like the Democrats. Look how our Governor was elected. Our prayers continue for this Campaign and for Mike Huckabee to WIN! Our voices MUST be heard and our votes MUST be counted. Here is his contact information. ~Lisa
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