McCain Still Winner After Caucus Count
Washington State Count Doesn’t Change Things
Seattle Times
By Janet I. Tu
After a day of heated rhetoric over alleged irregularities in the state Republican precinct caucuses and continuing complaints from presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s campaign, state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser late Monday night released updated numbers — and acknowledged four counties had submitted wrong information.
The updated numbers didn’t change the results significantly. With 96 percent of the precincts reporting, Arizona Sen. John McCain won 25.6 percent of the delegates; former Arkansas governor Huckabee had 23.3 percent, Texas Rep. Ron Paul 21.4 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has dropped out of the race, 15.3 percent. Most of the rest were uncommitted.
In terms of numbers of delegates for the front-runners, that means McCain won 3,191 delegates; Huckabee 2,898. The numbers are based on the candidates preferred by the elected delegates.
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