Interesting that their own states don’t like McCain and Romney that much
February 6, 2008I thought the big story out of last night’s Super Duper Tuesday voting was how little the home states of McCain and Romney like them. Whereas the people of Arkansas are clearly fond of their guy, Huckabee.
McCain and Romney both won their respective home states but narrowly. Romney managed to climb just over 50% support in Massachusetts, while McCain won with a simple plurality of around 47% in Arizona. Huckabee on the other hand managed a much stronger show of support from the home crowd, he won Arkansas with a very strong 60% vote.
To me that says the people who know McCain and Romney best (at least politically) are somewhat lukewarm in supporting their favorite sons. While the people of Arkansas have no such reservations supporting their guy Huckabee.
None of this will make me vote for a Republican this year. But it says to me that if I were voting Republican, I’d probably take a good hard look at supporting Huckabee. He’s the only Republican who gets such strong support from his previous constituents.