Something’s Rotten in Washington

Huckabee won’t concede state; GOP resuming delegate count

The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question today after presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party’s declaration that Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count.

Huckabee’s campaign took issue with the fact that Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser called the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the precincts counted. At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by 242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted.

In the face of the Huckabee protest, the state Republican Party quickly resumed its count today, a bit sooner than it had planned.

Calling a close election when only 87% of the votes have been counted? Wow! Hucklebee’s gonna have fun with this one.

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