Thursday, February 07, 2008

Romney Officially Out -- If Only Huckabee Had Such Grace

CNN is reporting that Romney has suspend his campaign for the Presidency:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html

For those of you wondering why Romney "suspended" as opposed to "dropping out," here is some insight provided by CNN:
Suspending a campaign has a different meaning depending on the party.

On the Republican side, decisions on how to allocate delegates is left to the state parties.

On the Democratic side, a candidate who "suspends" is technically still a candidate, so he or she keeps both district and statewide delegates won through primaries and caucuses. Superdelegates are always free to support any candidate at any time, whether the candidate drops out, suspends or stays in.

National party rules say that a candidate who "drops out" keeps any district-level delegates he or she has won so far but loses any statewide delegates he or she has won.
I don't know how I feel about this yet. The one thing I do know is that if Huckabee had dropped out when he should have, Romney would be the Republican candidate. I dislike Huckabee more and more each day. I'm voting for Duncan Hunter.

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