Some update to tell you regarding the ongoing US presidential race.Mitt Romney,a former presidential hopeful who quit after his disappointing Super Tuesday result,have decided to endorse fellow Republican,and his former rival,John McCain to be the Republican nominee for the President.If you could remember in one of my previous post about Romney quitting the race,I told you that he might not be endorsing anyone,or he could be endorsing Huckabee,but of course I was wrong on both occassions.
According to Romney,McCain is 'a man capable of leading our country in this dangerous hour' as well as a 'true American hero'.The reason for his decision to endorse McCain? There was many actually.One of them was the involvement of John Weaver,who was McCain's top political strategist until he was forced out in a campaign shakeup last summer.According to several sources familiar with the talks,Weaver got involved with the blessing,indeed at the urging,of two current top McCain advisers,Charlie Black and Steve Schmidt.Both were aware of Weaver's friendship and past working relationship with Romney campaign manager Beth Myers. Weaver and Myers worked together on a Texas campaign and at the Texas Republican party back in the 1980s and have remained good friends.According to sources in both the Romney and McCain camps,Weaver made contact with Myers last week to initiate talks aimed at winning Romney's endorsement and an urging from him that his delegates rally to McCain's candidacy.Another reason is because Romney also wants to help McCain move faster to "secure the nomination and unite the party for the general election against the Democrats for November."
In another boost for McCain,Romney will "release" his delegates to McCain,meaning he will encourage them to get behind McCain's candidacy.Romney had collected 286 delegates before he suspended his campaign two weeks ago.Those delegates would give McCain 1,013 total delegates,78 short of securing the nomination,so that means Huckabee will be trailing even far behind,which is bad for me.On the other side of the race,Hillary Clinton have won the polls in New Mexico,but I believe Obama is still in the lead in the number of delegates.I think todays announcement will be a huge boost to McCain and a huge blow to Huckabee.I think its certain to say that McCain will win the Republican side of the race for sure,but Im still hoping for a miracle to happen.As much as I was disappointed with Romney decision,I thought he did the right thing and decided on the best option for the party,and not for himself.The race is not over yet though.It shall continue next Tuesday.Till then,take care folks.
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