John McCain beats Mitt Romney in Florida Primary
January 29, 2008 
John McCain beat Mitt Romney in the Republican winner-take-all delegates Florida primary Wednesday:
With 99 percent of Republican precincts reporting from Florida after Tuesday’s voting, McCain held a five-point lead, 36 percent to 31 percent, over Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani placed a distant third with 15 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who held 14 percent.
The results essentially put John McCain in the frontrunner position for the Republicans and essentially ended Rudy Giuliani’s campaign, after he made Florida his make-or-break state.
Democrats also voted, but the Democratic National Committee stripped the state of its delegates as a penalty because the state pushed their primary up before February 5th. The Democratic primary was largely referred to as a “beauty contest,” although that didn’t stop Hillary Clinton, who got 50% of the vote from celebrating her “victory”:
This article was originally published at ElectionSquad.com.
