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McCain Clinches Republican Nomination

by Jarrett Martineau | March 4, 2008 at 06:29 pm

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Multiple sources are now reporting (here, here, here, and here) that John McCain will lead the Republican party into the 2008 US presidential election.

Republican John McCain clinched his party's presidential nomination on Tuesday with four big victories over his last major rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

The wins in Vermont, Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island gave him more than the 1,191 delegates needed to win the nomination, according to media delegate counts. President George W. Bush was expected to endorse McCain at the White House on Wednesday.

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kberg

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at 18:35 on March 4th, 2008

Alright! Go Johnny Mac!

Jarrett Martineau

at 18:53 on March 4th, 2008

Not surprisingly, Gov. Mike Huckabee has conceded defeat and dropped out of the Presidential race:

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee abandoned his U.S. presidential bid on Tuesday after voting in four more state contests made it clear his rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain, would be the Republican candidate in the November election.

"It's now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been but what now must be, and that is a united party," Huckabee told supporters in at a Texas rally.