Steve at No Runny Eggs does the math, and concludes, “McCain needs to pick up about 245 delegates, or about 24 percent of the remaining delegates, to lock up the nomination, while Huckabee and Paul together would need to pick up 774 delegates (76 percent of the remaining delegates) just to potentially send it to a brokered convention, and that assumes McCain does not pick up any of Romney’s ‘pledged’ delegates.”

Steve thinks Huckabee’s real aim is to be frontrunner in 2012 if McCain falls short of the presidency. But in order to do that, the former Arkansas governor would need to be on good terms with a wide range of Republicans. If there’s any sense that his continued presence in this all-over-but-the-shouting primary is hurting McCain, he won’t have that…