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...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...
...Romney's greatest campaign assets is his relentless optimism. His vow to fight on to the convention was less delusional than constitutional; he genuinely believes the tide is always about to turn in his favor. But Romney is also a former management consultant, a numbers-cruncher unlikely to remain a candidate if he concludes that winning is no longer a serious possibility. At the very least, Super Tuesday reminded him of the difference between three...
When fall-semester finals don’t seem to go their way, many Harvard students have been known to vow that they will redouble their efforts, promising to improve in the coming spring term. For the Harvard men’s hockey team, the second-semester improvements have already begun. Snapping a nine-game winless streak that dated back to Dec. 1, the Crimson (7-9-3, 6-6-2 ECAC) rode senior Jon Pelle’s two-score night and its best overall team effort of the season to a 3-1 win over Dartmouth...
When fall-semester finals don’t seem to go their way, many Harvard students have been known to vow that they will redouble their efforts, promising to do better in the coming spring term...
...recent Colbert Report, Huckabee riffed to Stephen Colbert on Senator John McCain's vow to pursue Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell." "I will charge hell with a water pistol if necessary," Huckabee deadpanned, as if to one-up McCain. How about outsourcing jobs? "As long as it isn't mine." Then Colbert asked if he believed that evolution was a farce. "It's all a farce," Huckabee said, in his usual dry tone. Ha ha! How droll! Except ... um ... he doesn't believe in evolution...