According to some people on the ground, Mike Huckabee won West Virginia’s primary on the second ballot, but some of the 18 delegates (uncommitted “super delegates”) will switch to McCain and Paul at the Republican Convention:
Paul has been knocked out of the race, and I honestly don’t know where his votes go. Whoever wins the convention gets 18 delegates: Paul and presumably McCain will get nothing. The Ron Paul Forums people want the conventioneers to vote Huck—how do you like that monkey wrench, gears?—or split.
UPDATE 2:20: I’m hearing the gambit by McCain and Paul backers to go for Huckabee worked. Huckabee’s going to win.
UPDATE 2:24: Yes, most of the McCain and Paul voters went for Huckabee on the second ballot. Huckabee wins, 52-47 percent.
UPDATE 3:00: Via Michael Wooten of WSAZ, Paul backers expect to score 3 of Huckabee’s 18 delegates today in return for giving him the election.
Romney’s calling it out for what it is. He should have hammered the obvious McCain-Huckabee alliance much sooner.
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