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February 8, 2012

Romney Has a Clear Path & His Rivals Don't

Ross Douthat, New York Times


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In a way, Rick Santorum’s surprising Missouri-Minnesota-Colorado sweep last night is a lot like Newt Gingrich’s win in South Carolina: A victory that reminds us all, once again, that Mitt Romney is a strikingly weak frontrunner, without changing the fact that Romney has a clear path to the nomination and his rivals really don’t. The difference, though, is that Santorum is a stronger anti-Romney candidate than the combustible and compromised Gingrich, with wider geographic appeal (as he demonstrated last night) and fewer glaring liabilities.

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