I think we can safely say that McCain benefited greatly from Romney's dropout Saturday. My question is why didn't those that voted for Romney, vote for Huckabee? Anyone who voted Saturday for Romney just costed Washington more voting headaches.

I was at the Republican Caucuses and found that most of the Romney supporters were voting for one of a couple resons: (1) They wanted to vote for a true conservative. It was more of a voice to the fact that they felt there were no "true conservatives" left. However, most of them said they liked McCain second. It was more about beating liberalism (bunking many hard line conservatives that will vote for Clinton). (2) They were voting AGAINST Mike Huckabee. They feel that Mike Huckabee is nothing but a blight upon the Republican party. Their second choice - McCain.

It told me that people are going to support McCain. It also told me that the majority of the people did not support Huckabee.

Wow, you are totally out of touch with the GOP base I guess. I caucaused for Romney to show the GOP establishment that I was upset at McCain & Huckabee. I didn't like any of the initial GOP field and went late for Thompson. When he dropped out, I supported Mitt. Mitt was the last acceptable guy IMO, which is why he got my vote in the caucus.

I am sick or bloated, corrupt, ineffective government that the Democrats support 100% and the GOP supports 70%. I want to clean the GOP of statists so we can a true choice in elections; the fascist/statist/bloated government cabal vs. classic liberals like myself who want to return power back to the people.

Wow. I had no idea that the Times' staff was so out of touch. I mean, I knew they were out of touch, but so out of touch to not realize why Romney got so many votes?

I thought Romney might have actually WON the caucus EVEN THOUGH he dropped out days before. That you don't understand how he did so well is the real head-scratcher.