C'mon...everyone at once now!

Counting 87% of the vote is equivalent to something you would find in Pakistan, not the USA.

It’s especially shady because Huckabee was leading early, and then they decided to stop at 87%, once McCain had pulled ahead (by a mere 200 votes!)

All we're reporting is the preference of those delegates. That gives us a rough idea how the electorate feels. It's not science. My PERSONAL opinion was that we should not have released any numbers at all, because they are meaningless. But the media was just DYING to have some sort of result.

The only numbers that matter are who our 18 delegates elected at the state convention are supporting."

Just ask Maine - or Washington - or Lousiana - or any other state.

GOP - the party of incompetence and under-achievers. The place to be if you hate America and our core values of Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class way of life.

This is more than a Republican issue and bigger than WA state. If this is going on now what about November?

Paper ballots, national holiday, clean election.

Now there will be discrimination of many kinds in America under McCain, but that will be nothing to the kind of discrimination Hucakbee would carry out. Age discrimination... sex, race, orientation, religion, you name it, if the Bible mentions it, Huckabee will try to get a law to enforce unequal treatment of some kind.

If he can't pass a law, he'll do it anyway and let Jesus sort it out.

If you just imagine the bell curve of how long our 71 year olds have left versus our 50-60 year olds (like Hillary and Obama), you can see that age matters. For them, the ones who don't make it the next 8-1/2 years are a thin sliver on the end of the curve. For McCain's age group, a sizable slice will not be with us in 2012 or 2016. Not all, and not quite most, but enough that you need to think about contingencies.

WTF, wtfpatty?

1. 15 years life expectancy is not 15 years of un-senile, un-demented life expectancy, nor is it "life at full energy and the height of your powers without being consumed by medical procedures taking up all your energy, your stress limit and 40% of your time."
For those folks who are 70 who live to 85? Guess what. For most of them the last years aren't so hot and they're not working 12 hours a day.

Duhhhhhhh.

2. Ask for links for proposition that are novel or surprisiing. Not for that are widely understood. Like: bell curves that surround "average" or "mean" life expectancy.

OF what about this: The sky is blue in most places. wtfpatty: "where's your link for that, buster?"

You're tendentious.

3. Invoking "age discrimination" -- what a load of crap. You're not fooling us with your fake claim that people concerned about McCain's age are making McCain a "victim."

Poor, itty bitty John McCain. Guess he can't take the heat without you claiming he is a victim, eh?

No poor JM. But I find it sad that we're (I'm including myself here) age-baiting, despite being progressives.

"Our cause is just. We must reemphasize the sacred American principle that all ballots be counted in a free, fair, and transparent manner."
I nearly fell off my chair when I read this coming from a member of the same party as Karl Rove.

It's true there are a million other reasons to oppose McCain -- or more to the point -- to not take any chances in making sure we beat him. I'd advise anyone to let go of your dreamboat perfect candidate and go with the one with even a slightly better chance of stopping McCain.

And I'm against Huckabee because uhh--his children are too fat!

And Hillary's a woman!

Two days ago I would have said never - now I wonder.

Mc Cain wants to win - so - think JFK and LBJ. And the rich smell of American presidential politics.

Huckfuck is also very corrupt which might serve Mc Cain well in the swirling snake pit they both inhabit.

Second, McCain doesn't have a multi-decade career in Hollywood to help him like Reagan did at his old age. Celebrity was an important factor into Reagan getting into politics. Just ask 70s Californians who elected him Governor. Schwarzenegger would have been the GOP candidate had he been born on U.S. soil. McCain has nada.

http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Blog_Perfect#Did_the_Washington_State_Republican_Party_Misrepresent_McCain.27s_Victory.3F

@38: "Our cause is just. We must reemphasize the sacred American principle that all ballots be counted in a free, fair, and transparent manner."

This is shocking only if you're not cynical enough. This is still the party of Karl Rove, master of mouthing the platitudes the masses want to hear while doing the dirtiest tricks he can get away with to get what he wants. If Huckabee had been ahead when they cut off the counting, his campaign would be silent and McCain's would be howling and sending out lawyers in droves. Fair play is less important than winning.