Via Matt W., the fact that the GOP has "progressed from 2000 where they refused to count Democratic votes, to 2008 where they are now refusing to count their own votes" is indeed very amusing. It's bizarre for a party to just announce a winner in a close race before counting every vote, and you also have to think that a court inquiry embarrassingly revealing and overturning a trumped-up Potemkin 25.5 percent "victory" would be far more damaging to McCain that just straightforwardly losing the WA primary in the first place. And Huckabee's certainly not going to take this behavior (the logic of the WA GOP seems to be that the Partiots should have just been declared the winner of the Super Bowl with 2 minutes left) lying down, so this should stay interesting.
--Scott Lemieux
