Arizona US Senator John McCain scored a critical victory over Willard Romney in the Florida Republican Primary on Tuesday 29 January, picking up all 57 delegates in play in the primary contest. McCain is expected to win the primary by about three to six percentage points over the former Massachusetts governor and ex-front runner. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee continued to fade with his fourth place finish in the Sunshine State, behind Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani did poorer in Florida than was expected, basically ending his campaign for the nomination. The former New York City mayor is expected to drop out on Wednesday 30 January in Californina and extend his support and endorsement to McCain after Giuliani seemingly was a leadpipe-cinch certainty to win the nomination just weeks ago.For a campaign that was all but dead less than three months ago, McCain has made a tremendous and unexpected comeback to seize the lead for the nomination that he could very well may begin to cement next Tuesday with the nineteen Republican primaries and caucuses being conducted on 5 February. McCain is favored to win most of those contests according to polls and research at this time.
The win in the Florida Primary for McCain was tremendous and a huge step towards earning the GOP Presidential nomination. For Romney and Huckabee, the defeats were staggering defeats and very well may be another step towards the demise of their candidacies unless they make surprising rebounds on Super Tuesday. Otherwise, those two campaigns may be all but dead.
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