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Tomorrow’s contest will also be nationally televised on ESPNU—Harvard’s second appearance this season on the network. In the first, the Crimson upset Michigan in front of a raucous home crowd...
...contest between John McCain and Mitt Romney has long resembled a horror movie, a blood-and-guts battle between a man risen from the dead and a candidate seemingly created in a lab. On Tuesday, a resurrected McCain slipped beyond the moneyed Michigan native's manicured grasp to win by five points in the Florida Republican primary and cement his status as the G.O.P. front-runner. Romney smiled through a thinly revised version of his ritual stump speech, as though the race hadn't fundamentally changed. But one could imagine what he might be thinking in the darker recesses...
...drop-out drop-out speech, Rudy referred to his combative nature: "Like most Americans, I love competition. I don't back down from a principled fight." But he stayed out of Iowa, New Hampshire (at least once he fell behind there), Wyoming, Michigan and South Carolina, holding out for a fight he thought he could win in Florida, trying to win a national election on local battlefields of his own choosing. He listened to political operatives who valued big-state delegates more than small-state momentum, and now it looks like he's going to get neither. The humorist Dave...
...certain times, McCain seems to dwell too much on war and Islamic extremism, which he calls the "transcendent challenge of the 21st century." Just as he hurt his chances in Michigan by leveling with voters that old-line jobs in the dying auto industry weren't coming back, he risks alienating Republicans in the Sunshine State with his particularly bleak view of the future. "It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars," he told supporters on Sunday, without elaborting. "And right...
...solutions candidates have to offer. In SurveyUSA's most recent poll, Romney leads by 17 points among those whose most important issue is the economy. (McCain "leads by 14 points among voters focused on terrorism and by 22 points among voters focused on Iraq.") Much as in the Michigan primary, where Romney beat McCain with a message of beguiling economic optimism, business experience and native son sentimentality, Romney is now taking every opportunity to remind voters, "No one needs to give me a briefing on the economy." (The swipe at McCain is an inversion of a Romney line that McCain...