I caught up with some dejected Romney supporters, college students drinking in the hotel lobby shortly after his "suspension" speech. They grudgingly admitted that they would support McCain (although one expressed the faint hope that I caught up with some dejected Romney supporters, college students drinking in the hotel lobby shortly after his "suspension" speech. They grudgingly admitted that they would support McCain (although one expressed the faint hope that Dick Cheney would jump in the race--no, I wouldn't believe me, either, but I heard it with my own ears), and they were roundly dismissive of Huckabee. "I don't think America is ready to have a pastor in the White House," said one. Amen, brother. Huckabee supporters are sparse here; this isn't really his crowd, and the McCain people made a huge enough showing to outshout the McCain naysayers. Allen is hugely popular with conservative Christians, and I suspect his endorsement could help with bringing that constituency around to McCain. (Counterintuitive, i know, but that's the nature of the beast.) And McCain had another grudging warm-up act: Dick Armey, who roundly lambasted Ann Coulter for pledging to campaign for Hillary Clinton. Judging from the crowd's reaction, Coulter just might have been taken down a few notches with that one. --Sarah Posner
