GOP Tsunami Tuesday Live-Blogging
Welcome Instapundit readers.
I'll be following returns as they come in this evening. Listed below are the states who have a primary today. The number in parenthesis is the delegates that are up grabs. Delegate numbers with an asterisk are winner take all states. A few of the states are closed primary states, meaning you have to be a registered voter for the party primary you are voting in, but I didn't include that in this list.
Alabama (48) - Huckabee
Alaska (29) - Romney
Arizona (53*) - McCain
Arkansas (34) - Huckabee
California (173) - McCain
Colorado (46) - Romney
Connecticut (30*) - McCain
Delaware (18*) - McCain
Georgia (72) - Huckabee
Illinois (70) - McCain
Massachusetts (43) - Romney
Minnesota (41) - Romney
Missouri (58*) - McCain
Montana (25*) - Romney
New Jersey (52*) - McCain
New York (101*) - McCain
North Dakota (26) - Romney
Oklahoma (41) - McCain
Tennessee (55) - Huckabee
Utah (36*) - Romney
West Virginia (18) - Huckabee
[3:14pm] Huckabee wins West Virginia in the first results turned in for today. He defeated Romney by 46 delegates.
[3:35pm] Rush Limbaugh endorsed Mitt Romney today. James Dobson says he'll stay home this November if McCain is the nominee.
[3:48pm] McCain fires back at Senate colleagues criticizing him: "[I]n all due respect to a couple of those people that are criticizing me, they’re not the most respected members of the United States Senate, to be honest with you."
[4:54pm] Doug Mataconis points to more evidence of a McCain/Huckabee deal in West Virginia via Marc Ambinder: "[S]ources say that representatives for John McCain called many of his reps in WV and asked them to vote for Huckabee...in order to thwart Romney on the second ballot."
[5:32pm] I'm sure this was expected, but Romney is up in Massachusetts, according to exit polls.
[7:00pm] Polls have closed in Georgia.
[7:07pm] You can view the exit polls for Georgia here.
[7:20pm] Here is a list of the states closing their polls at 8pm EST: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
[7:26pm] Results are finally starting to trickle in for Georgia.
[7:32pm] Glenn Reynolds (aka. Instapundit) writes, "Jason Pye is liveblogging the GOP results, but he's appare