In my Post column this morning, I look at McCain’s win — a narrow one, once again without the conservative base, but enough:

THEY don’t like him. They re ally don’t like him. But he’s going to be their nominee.

John McCain has won yet another primary without carrying either self-identified conservatives or Republicans - at least according to the Florida exit polls, which show McCain losing self-identified Republicans by 31 percent to 33 percent for Mitt Romney. More, Romney scored a stunning 37 percent of self-described conservatives to McCain’s 27 percent.

But a win is a win - and there’s little that can stop the Straight Talk Express now.

McCain had been written off by the pundits (including me, many times, usually quite gleefully), but the media remains his base, his campaign treasure chest and his get-out-the-vote operation all wrapped up into one. His narrow victory will ring through the land as a landslide.

And, truth be told, while it’s underwhelming, it’s enough. It’s long been clear the winner of Florida would almost certainly go on to win the whole thing - and now McCain has, and he most likely will.

With Mike Huckabee staying in the race to split the conservative (and especially the southern Evangelical) vote, it’s hard to see where Romney could put together any significant number of primary victories on Feb. 5.

I also give a brief assessment of how he fares versus the two possible Dems. Short version: well against Hillary, poorly against Barack.