After SC Republicans' primal scream episode, the race for the party's presidential nod seems to have settled into the usual pattern: the frontrunner is the guy who lost the last time. You wait your turn. So now we have Romney winning the Nevada caucuses.
Several things are striking about it. One is that he felt the need to accept the endorsement of Donald Trump there. Another is that he won with 39% of the vote. All the other caucusers wanted someone from another, nearby, planet: Santorum, Paul, or Gingrich.
Having 60% of your base against you lends a new potential meaning to "frontrunner."
Assuming Romney charges onward and upward, he will be the first barefoot boy from Wall Street since the Repubilcans took a flyer power company executive Wendell Willkie in 1940.
Willkie had great hair, too.
Several things are striking about it. One is that he felt the need to accept the endorsement of Donald Trump there. Another is that he won with 39% of the vote. All the other caucusers wanted someone from another, nearby, planet: Santorum, Paul, or Gingrich.
Having 60% of your base against you lends a new potential meaning to "frontrunner."
Assuming Romney charges onward and upward, he will be the first barefoot boy from Wall Street since the Repubilcans took a flyer power company executive Wendell Willkie in 1940.
Willkie had great hair, too.
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