[dan1123]

A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.

Did you pay attention to the Florida exit polls at all?

>> When asked who they would have voted for if their candidate had not been on the Florida ballot, 35 percent of the Huckabee voters said McCain, compared to 26 percent who said Romney. << source

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Florida numbers may reflect “identity politics”, the blue-hair vote.

[Greg F]

>> When asked who they would have voted for if their candidate had not been on the Florida ballot, 35 percent of the Huckabee voters said McCain, compared to 26 percent who said Romney. <<

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Nod. There is a fantasy among Mormons, who basically have a rivalry (putting it nicely) with evangelicals, that Huck is taking Romney votes. It’s vice versa. Most of those Huck voters would go to McCain. Romney would get some . . . but not this Huck voter for example. It’s a sort of two-sided view of things among the Mormon supporters of Romney — in one the distrust of the Mormon church and evangelists is supposed to be terrible and bigoted and we are unfairly not looking at Romney. On the other, Huck is taking away Romney voters. The two in combination don’t make sense. It’s an example of “any stick is good enough to beat the Christians with.”