I just got off the phone with a senior McCain campaign official who gave me the following statement:
Tonight’s result will lead to a tidal wave of momentum into the Michigan primary. In the last 20 minutes we’ve received a flood of volunteer sign-ups for the Michigan rallies tomorrow. It’s to hard to predict a result in the Michigan primary because we don’t know which candidates will still be in the race, be we are confident of a strong result in Michigan.
Now that New Hampshire is over, the McCain campaign is licking their chops to get to the Michigan primary for reasons I’ve outlined here, but I’ll just give you the Cliffs Notes. With only Hillary on the Democratic ballot in the state (the DNC revoked the state’s delegates for moving its primary up) Democrats and independents are likely to show up and vote in the more competitive Republican race because the state effectively has an open primary. The McCain campaign thinks this will help them greatly.
However, Huckabee is competitive in the state, and Romney remains competitive as well. As excited as the McCain camp is right now, anything could happen in Michigan.






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