Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Kansas Republican presidential caucus Saturday, trouncing presumptive GOP nominee John McCain.
Huckabee, who barnstormed across the state Friday, led in counties across the state in what will be seen as an upset win.
- KC Star
Senator McCain did stop in Kansas, but he only went to Wichita, ignoring the rest of the state. Ron Paul, who was speaking to Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, sent his son to represent him, but he to only went to the states largest city. Governor Huckabee was the only candidate to make stops in each of the four congressional districts. As a result he won the 3 delegates from each of those congressional delegates.
In Louisiana Huckabee is winning that states primary with 90% of the precincts reporting. The problem is that even if he keeps his majority and wins the state, party rules in that state requires a candidate to get at least 50% of the votes, in order to get the winner take all delegates. So the result will be that the states
20 delegates will travel to the convention as uncommitted.
I Washington states caucuses the election is to close to call. Fox News is saying as I type this that there will be no winner declared in that race.
Stay tuned this election season is going to get really interesting.
Kansas Republican Presidential Caucus
Final Results
3:45 PM
Total Ballots: 19,516 + 493 Provisional Ballots (Total 20,009)
First Congressional District (Garden City)
Huckabee 60.46%
McCain 22.52%
Paul 9.51%
Second Congressional District (Topeka)
Huckabee 54.00%
McCain 24.23%
Paul 11.94%
Third Congressional District (Kansas City)
Huckabee 51.44%
McCain 26.31%
Paul 12.19%
Fourth Congressional District (Wichita)
Huckabee 66.83%
McCain 18.23%
Paul 10.15%
Statewide Total
Huckabee 59.6%
McCain 23.5%
Paul 11.1%
Delegates Awarded
Mike Huckabee 36
John McCain 2
Uncommitted 1
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And that's my view, what's yours?
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