Via The Hill, I found a statement from the Romney camp over their loss of today’s West Virginia caucuses:
“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change,” Beth Myers, Romney’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
In the first round of balloting, results were:
- Romney — 464 votes
- Huckabee — 375 votes
- McCain — 176 votes
- Ron Paul — 118 votes (eliminated)
Second ballot, because no candidate received a majority of the vote:
- Huckabee — 567 votes
- Romney — 521 votes
- McCain — 12 votes
It seems that a number of McCain supporters switched over to Huckabee, to block Romney from getting the win.
Thus, the sore loser statement above.