Deep wierdness in Washington GOP race

February 11, 2008

If you’re going to rig and election, it’s best to try and hide it. And if you’re not going to rig an election, then you shouldn’t stop counting votes in a hotly-contested election:

Here at TPM, as we watched the rate of the reporting slow to halt on Saturday evening, we joked amongst ourselves that with McCain already getting beaten by Huckabee twice that day maybe the organizers of the election figured that if they just held out long enough people would just forget they’d held a caucus. But as it got later and later we started to wonder if it wasn’t a joke. [ WTF?, Talking Points Memo ]

The Washington GOP chairman decided to call the election for McCain with 13% of the votes uncounted and only 2% difference or so between the two candidates. Huck’s got his lawyers looking into this. Now I understand why the party leadership doesn’t want Huckabee to be the presidential candidate. And far be it from me to tell the GOP how to nominate its own candidates. But surely there’s got to be a more subtle way to put your thumb on the scales.

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