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...that status have come several high-profile candidate visits. Clinton visited Clark University in Worcester for a “Solutions for America” rally yesterday morning, and then held a town hall event yesterday evening. Republican hopeful John McCain held a campaign event and attended a Super Bowl party in Boston on Sunday, and then held a 9 a.m. rally at Faneuil Hall yesterday. Former Governor Mitt Romney, who is facing off against McCain, will vote in Belmont this afternoon, and then hold an election event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston tonight. Northeastern student...
...moment, Romney is still playing it safe, carefully avoiding any hard-and-fast predictions that could paint him into a corner, as he runs his body to a breaking point. "This is the Super Bowl of politics," he said Sunday in St. Louis of the coming election day. "And for old guys like me, politics is kind of sport...
There had to be a metaphor somewhere - it was all too symbolic: Mitt Romney, the often-hyped Massachusetts governor turned presidential candidate, was watching the also-hyped New England Patriots as they approached the apparent verge of Super Bowl victory Sunday, just two days before the biggest election of Romney's life, Super Tuesday, when 21 states would shape the fate of his White House dreams...
...couple of minutes remained in the fourth quarter, with the Pats up by four and the New York Giants driving. Romney stood alone, without a tie, in a starched white shirt and Super Bowl cap before dozens of reporters with boom mics that kept getting in the way of the hotel lobby TV. One way or another, football history was being made, for sure. But Romney was surrounded by political scribes, not sports reporters. One of them asked, Do you see a metaphor for your campaign in the game...
...Super Bowl, the odds makers have a clear favorite, McCain, who is riding a double-digit lead in national polls and significant Mac-mentum coming out of his win in Florida. He also benefits from Huckabee, a distant challenger who is far more likely to bleed conservative voters away from Romney than the more independent McCain. But unlike the Super Bowl, the Republican nomination has about fifteen different time clocks and ways of keeping score. There are caucuses and primaries, winner-take-all states and states that portion delegates by congressional district. "I don't know which states I will...