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...Back in Boston, Romney was reduced to pledging to continue to fight "all the way to the convention." He quoted his wife in describing the muddled message that had been sent by the American people. "Ann came to me and she said, 'You know, the one thing that's clear tonight is that nothing's clear,'" he said...
...results showed the clearest picture yet of the Republican nomination fight. McCain has both cemented his position as the Republican front-runner, and failed to win the support of much of his party's conservative base. Romney has also failed, thus far, to establish himself as the clear standard-bearer for that conservative movement, especially in the South, where Huckabee holds an obvious claim to the evangelical vote...
...date, Romney's success has mostly come at the margins, in small-state caucuses like Maine, Nevada and North Dakota, where other campaigns have not competed. The three larger primaries he has won - Michigan, Massachusetts and Utah - were in his native home, his current home and his spiritual home...
...After his vow to fight on, Romney's chief spokesman did his best to put a positive spin on the night, pointing to Huckabee's significant weaknesses as a serious rival to McCain. "We can make an electability argument that Mike Huckabee can't," said Kevin Madden. "He is limited in his regional appeal." Indeed, Huckabee has yet to garner a significant block of votes outside his mostly evangelical base, which is heavily concentrated in the South...
...Madden was also describing a Romney appeal that has so far failed to materialize. The campaign has gone through repeated rebirths, with new themes and new campaign signs, new ads and new message strategies. Romney has tried to be the candidate of true fiscal, social and national security conservatism. He has tried to be the corporate executive candidate who understands the economy. He has tried to be the candidate of change, who will shake up Washington. On Tuesday night, his rhetoric took on a previously unseen, almost Trotskyite tenor: "It's time for the politicians to leave Washington...