Yes, he did.

But Rep. Ron Paul still got 16 percent of the vote, and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 11 percent. As The Boston Globe points out, that’s not terribly unusual:

In 2000, the last contested Republican presidential race, competitors were still winning sizable shares of the vote well after George W. Bush had secured the nomination and McCain withdrew in March of that year. The next month in Pennsylvania, Bush won 72 percent of the vote to McCain’s 22 percent.

So McCain’s not in trouble, per se. But with about 805,000 votes cast for GOP candidates, as compared to the more than 2.6 million for Clinton and Obama, the senator from Arizona still needs to do more to excite his base, and Republican voters in general, especially in the more than likely event that the DNC nominee is not Clinton. 

If the McCain campaign is smart, and they’ve shown no sign of being anything but, they’ll work hard this summer to sell their man to “purple” states such as Washington and Colorado and weaken Obama’s apparent strength in the West. 

On Monday, I’ll be talking with the RNC’s online communication director, Liz Mair, about how the Republican Party plans on doing just that. Stay tuned for the write-up of our conversation.