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February 28, 2012

GOP Race Looks Murky, in Michigan and Beyond

Alex Altman, Time


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If you’re betting on Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Michigan and Arizona, the smart play is to short the pundits. For two months, each decree that a candidate possesses momentum has instead been a death knell. Mitt Romney came into South Carolina as the first non-incumbent GOP candidate in a generation to capture the first two contests, and got clobbered by a guy who had twice been written off for dead. Newt Gingrich’s lunar lunacy in Florida repositioned Romney as the inevitable nominee, but the coronation was postponed by Rick Santorum’s three-state sweep on Feb. 7 — a night everyone said didn’t matter until it vaulted Santorum to the lead in national polls. For the past two weeks, Tuesday’s primaries in Michigan and Arizona loomed as a...

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