In the 1860 Republican Convention, William H. Seward of NY entered the convention with a plurality of delegates, but not a majority. Abraham Lincoln entered the convention considerably behind in delegates, but it turned out on the third round of voting, the dark horse candidate, Lincoln got his party's nomination and the rest, as they say, is history. Some have suggested that Lincoln won on the strength of his support from West Virginia, which wanted a strong candidate so they could take a stand for the Union.
Could history repeat itself in 2008? If neither leading candidate in the Republican race, McCain and Romney, can lock down a clear majority before the convention, we could have a brokered convention where, like West Virginia today, the candidate who comes with the most delegates, but not a majority, may not be able to get a majority and the most acceptable candidate could be the dark horse, Huckabee.
Today is Super Tuesday on America. There are 1023 delegates up for grabs in the GOP primary. It takes 1191 to win the nomination before the convention. There are 2380 total delegates in the GOP. At the start of the day the count stood:
McCain 93
Romney 77
Huckabee 40
Paul 4
If McCain continues to only garner 43% of the delegates, he will finish with 1034, not the 1191 required to be the nominee. The same applies for Romney and Huckabee, however, McCain and Romney both have much higher negatives than Gov Huckabee and for that reason Huckabee could be the most acceptable nominee at a brokered convention. His relentless determination not to surrender in the face of great odds, may pay off. It could just be that today WV gave Huckabee the spark he needs to stay in until the convention.
It is noteworthy that Seward was the candidate of the establishment and Lincoln was thought to be without experience in national affairs, twi significant factors with the country having a potential civil war looming. While not a man of great personal wealth, business success or even military experience, Lincoln turned out to be the right man for the job.

Gov Mike Huckabee is the only consistent social conservative. Huckabee championed and signed the Marriage Amendment and a covenant marriage law.
He supports the Human Life Amendment and Marriage Amendment. Both the Arkansas and Arizona Right to Life have endorsed Huckabee. The true pro-life candidate. Gov Huckabee fought for and signed several pro-life pieces of legislation:
The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act (1997 Act 984)
The Fetal Protection Act (1999 Act 1273)
The Physician Assisted Suicide Ban Act (1999 Act 394)
The Woman’s Right to Know Act (2001 Act 353)
The Safe Haven Act (2001 Act 236)
The Choose Life Specialty Plate (2003 Act 344)
The Human Cloning Ban (2003 Act 607)
The Right to View Ultrasound Test (2003 Act 1189)
The Right to Receive Nutrition & Hydration (2003 Act 1322)
The Parental Consent for Minor Abortion Act (2005 Act 537)
The Unborn Child Pain Awareness & Prevention Act (2005 Act 1696)

Gov Romney initiated so-called homosexual marriage in Massachusetts, campaigned pro-abortion and banned the Boy Scouts of America from the 2002 Olympics because they are “intolerant” of the homosexuals. This reported by a pro-family group in his home state: http://massresistance.org/romney/

When neither leading candidate, McCain nor Romney bring a majority to the convention and neither can get a majority at the Republican Convention because they both have high negatives and neither is truly a social conservative, then Huckabee, the most acceptable, and true conservative, the social conservative, family values conservative will win just like he did in WV today! Lincoln was a man of faith when his country needed him, it seems another man of faith may yet get the GOP nomination.