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The major winner on Super Tuesday was John McCain. NBC's David Gregory declared that he "took command of the GOP race"…"he is now so far ahead in the delegate count he is all but unstoppable," his aides bragged to CBS' Chip Reid…ABC's Jake Tapper called him "the unequivocal Republican frontrunner." McCain prevailed with big victories in New York, California and Missouri despite his lack of support from conservatives. NBC's Ann Curry pointed to exit polls that showed "die-hard conservatives," what she called "the core of the Republican Party," voting elsewhere, dividing their support between Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. "McCain has a conservative problem," argued ABC's Tapper, because of his history of compromise with Democrats. McCain urged his conservative critics to cool it: "I do hope at some point we would just calm down a little bit."
CBS' Reid called Huckabee "giddy after far exceeding expectations" winning five states. "The bad news--they are all in the South and he did poorly almost everywhere else." Conversely, NBC's Gregory pointed out, "Romney cannot be considered the conservative alternative without winning southern conservative states." ABC's Tapper calculated that Romney has spent $1.2m for each delegate: "Once the frontrunner, Romney's performance has been underwhelming."
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