Things look a little hinky in McCain’s Washington State “win”

On Saturday night, it looked like Huckabee might win all three Republican contests against presumed Republican nominee, John McCain. But something fishy happened in Washington State. With 87% of the vote in, McCain was up by less than 2% of the vote. Then the counting stopped, and the Washington state GOP declared McCain the winner. No real explanation has been proffered for the oddity. My suspicion is that the state GOP either on its own or with some persuasion from elsewhere decided it would be really, really embarrassing for the presumed nominee to have to deal with Sunday headlines screaming that he got shut out.