Huckabee is not a throw-away vote

I was listening to an interview of Mike Huckabee on NPR today and it made me want to stand up and agree with him. As of today, McCain and Romney both may have more delegates pledged to them, but the race is still very early.

There's a great post on Wikipedia that explains all of this very well. As of Tuesday, 1/29, after McCain's Florida victory, only 208 delegates have been pledged or are projected to be pledged. It takes 1191 to win the republican nomination, and no candidate has more than 100 so far.

According to the Wikipedia post, they estimate the score to be McCain (97), Romney (74) and Huckabee (29). RealClearPolitics.com has the score much closer with McCain (93), Romney (59) and Huckabee (40). McCain is ahead by a good margin because he won all 57 delegates in the winner-take-all Florida primary.

There are 2172 republican delegates yet to be assigned. For all of the states who haven't had their primaries yet, why should we allow the 7 states who've completed their primaries already to limit our choice of presidential candidates?!