Romney Operatives Cancelled The Huge Party - While Santorum, Gingrich and Paul Nip At Romney’s Heels
Last
night was the night they planned to have a celebratory and raucous
party, with handcrafted lemonade flown in from La Jolla, and organic
iced tea from New Hampshire, an anonymous California donor shipped fish
tacos from Rubios, and there was going to be a balloon drop that went
on for days.The former Governor of Massachusetts, Willard Mitt Romney, was hoping he could take a rest from the demands of the campaign trail. Super Tuesday was the night he would clinch the nomination, but a funny thing happened on the way to his Boston campaign headquarters. The no-alcohol victory party and celebration was cancelled. He didn’t finish the job. He has 32% of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination, and he might have to campaign until June to do it.
The bottom line is that Republican primary voters do not like Willard Mitt Romney.
Romney won 6 states to Rick 'Sicko' Santorum's 3, and Newtie Newt Gingrich brought up the rear with 1. A look at the delegate totals shows that while Romney has 62% of the delegates to date, and 32% of the delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
It was not a good night for Willard Mitt Romney. The headlines coast to coast all echo the same theme. Romney ekes out a win, but has a long way to go.
Today’s Headlines
The politico.com headline screams “Mitt Romney’s rough road to Tampa” and Jonathan Martin reported:
Mitt Romney’s weaknesses show no sign of going away.
He
struggles in the South and with evangelical voters. He’s not
conservative enough. He loses among rural voters and with voters down
the economic scale.
All of his flaws were on full display Tuesday as he failed to wrap up the GOP nomination on an evening when it was within his grasp.
Romney’s still likely to be the GOP nominee. But Super Tuesday
demonstrated again that getting to Tampa is going to prove longer and
costlier than he and his advisers had hoped — a predicament that has
Republicans increasingly anxious and President Barack Obama’s high
command downright gleeful.
The Daily Beast Slog headline says “Romney Ekes Out Ohio Victory” and the article opens with:
Todd Spangler’s article in the Detroit Free Press has a banner headline that states “Romney wins Ohio squeaker, but no knockout blow on Super Tuesday.” Spangler wrote:
The Boston Herald headline reminds us that “Mitt Romney once again fails to KO Rick Santorum,” and Joe Battenfeld opines:
The Los Angeles Times lead headline shouts “Battle in Ohio reinforces GOP divide,” and adds “Mitt Romney's slim Super Tuesday victory over Rick Santorum brings little clarity to the race for the party's presidential nomination.” Mark Z. Barabak writes:
It’s
not over yet. Mitt Romney claimed the biggest Super Tuesday win in
Ohio, barely eking out a victory with 38 percent of the vote to Rick
Santorum’s 37.
Todd Spangler’s article in the Detroit Free Press has a banner headline that states “Romney wins Ohio squeaker, but no knockout blow on Super Tuesday.” Spangler wrote:
Mitt
Romney emerged from Super Tuesday's 10 Republican primaries and
caucuses as the overall winner in states and in delegates but failed to
deliver the punch that could have established him as the clear-cut,
overwhelming victor.
The Boston Herald headline reminds us that “Mitt Romney once again fails to KO Rick Santorum,” and Joe Battenfeld opines:
Super Tuesday failed to deliver a supersized win for Mitt Romney, and that’s a super letdown for Republicans hoping to end the divisive primary contest.
Once
again, Romney failed to put away his opponents, even after a late surge
propelled him to a narrow win over Rick Santorum in Ohio. That means
the race will get longer and nastier, maybe all the way through the
summer.
The Los Angeles Times lead headline shouts “Battle in Ohio reinforces GOP divide,” and adds “Mitt Romney's slim Super Tuesday victory over Rick Santorum brings little clarity to the race for the party's presidential nomination.” Mark Z. Barabak writes:
Reporting from Columbus, Ohio— Mitt Romney squeezed past Rick Santorum
to win Ohio's presidential primary, capturing the biggest Super Tuesday
prize but raising enough doubts to quash hopes of quickly ending the Republicans' bruising nominating fight.
A
week after the former Massachusetts governor seemed to take command of
the presidential race with victories in Arizona and, more significantly,
his native state of Michigan, the contest was pitched into renewed
upheaval.
With more than 99% of the Ohio votes counted, Romney was clinging to a narrow lead of about 12,000 votes.
Romney’s SOL*
*shit out of luck
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