Huckabee Wins Kansas Caucus by a Landslide

While other Huckabee fans voted in Kansas, the candidate himself met supporters in Maryland. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post).

I know that Huckabee's chances of winning the Republican party nomination are small, but loyalty is etched in my bones. Plus I do admire Huckabee for taking a stand and for continuing the campaign. For one, it makes things interesting and 2, it gives him more recognition even if he doesn't win the nomination. This is a man who has basically run a grass-roots campaign for the presidency of the United States. That alone is commendable. If you live in Washington DC, Maryland or Virginia, please read more about Huckabee before you vote on Tuesday. This article comes straight from the Washington Post.com/The Trail and is written by Michael Shear. Here's the link.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee easily won the Kansas caucus Saturday, defeating John McCain despite the Senator's vast lead among delegates in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

With about half of the Kansas precincts reporting, Huckabee is on track to win with 61 percent of the vote, well ahead of McCain's 24 percent and 11 percent for Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

The vote for Huckabee is another sign that McCain has yet to win over the nation's conservative, heartland voters despite having dispatched most of his rivals during the first five weeks of the year.

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney both dropped out of the race, essentially conceding the nomination to McCain.

But Huckabee has refused, saying again Saturday that he will stay in the race until either he or McCain has the number of delegates required to clinch the nomination at the party's national convention in Minnesota in early September. Huckabee has 198 delegates, compared to McCain's 719, but he rejected the idea that he can't win.

In an speech to conservative activists in Washington Saturday morning, he said "I didn't major in math," he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting. "I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them."

Huckabee has decided to continue his improbable campaign in the face of a Republican party that finally seems willing to coalesce around McCain after a year in which many conservatives eyed him warily.

In the last several days, a steady stream of party leaders, elected officials and others have endorsed McCain, giving his candidacy the aura of inevitability.

But Huckabee told reporters after his speech that he will wait until he or McCain wins the needed 1,191 delegates. "I won't drop out until at least that happens," he said. "Then we'll see."