Super Tuesday

[Alex]

McCain should just be happy that Romney and Huckabee are splitting the content conservative vote. If either of them had stepped out a couple weeks ago it is hard to imagine the same result for McCain last night.

It is amazing to me that we're so solidly in the rut of producing such evenly split election results. Even when the election is limited to one half of the spectrum it splits down the middle. In pledged delegates Obaman and Clinton are essentially tied. In total votes cast yesterday they were with 200,000 of each other (slight lead to Clinton).

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex

McCain should just be happy that Romney and Huckabee are splitting the content conservative vote. If either of them had stepped out a couple weeks ago it is hard to imagine the same result for McCain last night.

I'm sure he is. Just as Dubya must have been glad Ralph Nader was in the race in 2000. That's just the way it goes when more than one candidate appeals to the same constituency, but the benefit to the remaining candidate is hardly unfair or undeserved simply because other candidates split up certain votes.