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...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...
...last night. He never said he's still a candidate for President either, and he probably would have mentioned that if he were. "I'm proud that we chose to remain positive," he told a sparse crowd of Orlando supporters after finishing a distant third behind John McCain and Mitt Romney. His use of the past tense made his status pretty clear. He said he's still heading to California tomorrow - "I've got my ticket!" But it's not a ticket to compete...
...through President George W. Bush, who has shown little inclination to support it. Bush favors what he calls technological solutions to global warming, but without the pressure of carbon caps. "That's like saying let's meet at the field and play baseball, but you don't bring a mitt or a ball," says Boxer. "You can't play the game...
...back against Romney's insinuation that McCain is not a "real" Republican, told reporters about his effort, at the 2004 Democratic convention, to have prominent Republicans be available to refute Democrats' attacks on George Bush and attack John Kerry. Many came to Boston, including Rudy Giuliani, but, says Schmidt, "Mitt Romney refused. He refused to utter one critical word about John Kerry...
...spring, and for much of the past couple of months, his bet has looked pretty shrewd. Out on the campaign trail, he has never missed an opportunity to tout the definite, if modest, improvement in Iraq and his role in pushing for the surge. But now, as McCain battles Mitt Romney to become the G.O.P. front-runner, it seems possible that the maverick Senator could be a victim of his own success. With Iraq overtaken by the flagging economy as voters' number one concern, McCain has not been able to turn his South Carolina victory of a week ago into...