It will take a few more weeks for McCain to win the 1,191 delegates needed for the nomination, but he has already won the most important prize in GOP presidential politics: inevitability. Tuesday is a mere formality.And he never won more than one-third of the Republican vote in any state.How did a Scoop Jackson Democrat win the GOP nomination? He didn’t. Everyone else lost it. UPDATE: They've picked up on our conversation at the Wall Street Journal.
It will take a few more weeks for McCain to win the 1,191 delegates needed for the nomination, but he has already won the most important prize in GOP presidential politics: inevitability. Tuesday is a mere formality.And he never won more than one-third of the Republican vote in any state.How did a Scoop Jackson Democrat win the GOP nomination? He didn’t.
Everyone else lost it.
UPDATE: They've picked up on our conversation at the Wall Street Journal.
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