Word: mitt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hillary Clinton edged out Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary yesterday, giving the New York politician a crucial win in her quest to become the first female candidate to be nominated by either major party. In the Republican race, Sen. John McCain defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa caucuses?...
...Mitt Romney is, as he reminds audiences in every speech, an optimist. At his last public event before the primary election today, he took the stage and surveyed the not-quite-packed crowd and was ebullient: "They tell me 200 people are waiting outside...
...reporters jumped from their seats and ran to the parking lot. An overflow crowd of 200 for Mitt, whose events had been drawing merely respectable crowds, would be news. A short jog to the parking lot revealed: satellite trucks and some people carrying Ron Paul signs. Oh. A Romney staffer caught up with us: "They were just here...
...that's Mitt Romney for you: The gym isn't half-empty, it's half-over-full...
...polls just months ago, put on the same green sweater he wore for his 2000 comeback in New Hampshire, and even stayed in the same hotel room. "There is no superstition I won't indulge," he said. In the end, the sweater worked: McCain beat former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points...