In today’s NY Times (Monday, May 19), the Republican flack, who the Times claims is a conservative commentator William Kristol wrote the following
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On Tuesday night, while the G.O.P. Congressional candidate was losing in a Mississippi district George Bush carried in 2004 by 25 points, Barack Obama was being trounced in the West Virginia Democratic primary — by 41 points. I can’t find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party’s nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin
It took me all of 2 minutes to find what Kristol couldn’t find –
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#UT
Utah Updated 11:02 a.m. EST, Feb 14, 2008
Romney 255,218 90%
McCain 15,264 5%
Paul 8,295 3%
Huckabee 4,054 2%