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<div class="entry"><p>Here’s how bad Super Tuesday was for Mitt Romney. At the same point in the Republican race back in 2000,outlet chanel, George W Bush swept Ohio by 58 to 37 percent. That’s what happens in most GOP races: the frontrunner establishes their advantage on Super Tuesday. Fast forward to 2012 and Mitt Romney scraped a lead in Ohio of just 1-2 percent. He’s a lame duck frontrunner – idly waiting to lose his own nomination.</p><p>The exit polls out of Ohio were shocking. Romney won among people over 65 who went to college and earn at least $100,000 per year. The Republican Party’s one aesthetic advantage over Obama was that the President comes across as snooty and out of touch. Incredibly, Mitt Romney makes him look like a latter-day Robin Hood. Romney is the boy at school who we all hated: the rich,Takeaways face chip ban during school hours - Telegraph, good looking kid with a briefcase who threw birthday parties that you only went to because they were really expensive. He’d be standing by the bouncy castle – sixteen years old in a cravat – giving everyone a warm handshake. “Hi, I’m Mitt Romney. Thanks for coming. Grab some cake.” Meanwhile, Rick Santorum is dropping spiders down a fat boy’s neck and Newt Gingrich is running around in a Buck Rogers costume (this is despite being in his early twenties).</p><p>Meanwhile, it was a night of wonder for Rick Santorum. His previous defeats in Michigan and Arizona, plus some bad culture war press,Richard Spencer – Telegraph Blogs, had caused many of us pundits to write him off. Instead he snatched victories in Oklahoma,chanel, North Dakota, Tennessee (in other news,Mulberry uk, Ron Paul’s 41 percent in Virginia was stunning and worthy of greater media attention).</p><p>I watched the returns from London, England – and you had to be there to get a sense of how tight things were. At midnight,ghd hair straighteners, it looked like a Romney walkover. He had won Vermont handsomely and enjoyed a healthy early lead in Ohio. Gingrich took Georgia, but no one cared because it’s his home state. Next year Newt will probably be buying houses in 49 other states to increase his chances for 2016.</p><p>At 1am, news broke that Santorum had taken Tennessee and Oklahoma. By 1.30,ray ban 3025, he was enjoying a 6,000 vote lead in Ohio. Thanks to rural returns, that grew to 16,cheap ghd,000 by 2am. That’s when things really got hot, and I broke open the Jaffa cakes. Santorum won North Dakota at about 2.30 and it seemed like Romney’s front runner status was all gone. Rick gave a victory speech and said that he’d been “pumping iron” in preparation (swoon). Then, at 3.30, Cleveland’s rich suburbs started to hand in their results. Santorum’s lead dipped lower and lower: 6,000 by 3.35, 2,300 by 3.45…</p><p>…Somewhere in the middle of all this, I entertained a hallucinatory fantasy of Rick Santorum being inaugurated – by the light of a burning heretic. I saw him put his hand on the Bible (Latin version) and read the oath with his unique “Are you kidding me?” expression. A million spectators rounded off the event with a rosary. Two hours later,ray ban wayfarer, the planes were headed for Iran and Planned Parenthood had seceded from the Union…</p><p>…Then, at 4.10am, Romney suddenly squeaked ahead. Not only was Santorum not performing well enough in urban areas to win,Mulberry uk, but he was doing poorly in delegate totals. Ultimately, Mitt had outspent and out organised him.</p><p>After five hours of swinging to and fro,borse burberry, what had the Republican primaries proven? That the party is woefully divided and that its logistical frontrunner,Napoli claim to have reached agreement with Rafael, Mitt Romney,Mulberry handbags, is disliked by his party’s base. Santorum is the cool kid at school who has the looks and the football skills. But he doesn’t have the money or the brains to go any further. Twenty years down the road, Mitt is head of his very own accountancy firm and Rick is shooting cans with a BB gun from the window of his trailer – a sad row of silver medals hanging from his wall. There will be no inauguration.</p></div> | <div class="entry"><p>Here’s how bad Super Tuesday was for Mitt Romney. At the same point in the Republican race back in 2000,outlet chanel, George W Bush swept Ohio by 58 to 37 percent. That’s what happens in most GOP races: the frontrunner establishes their advantage on Super Tuesday. Fast forward to 2012 and Mitt Romney scraped a lead in Ohio of just 1-2 percent. He’s a lame duck frontrunner – idly waiting to lose his own nomination.</p><p>The exit polls out of Ohio were shocking. Romney won among people over 65 who went to college and earn at least $100,000 per year. The Republican Party’s one aesthetic advantage over Obama was that the President comes across as snooty and out of touch. Incredibly, Mitt Romney makes him look like a latter-day Robin Hood. Romney is the boy at school who we all hated: the rich,Takeaways face chip ban during school hours - Telegraph, good looking kid with a briefcase who threw birthday parties that you only went to because they were really expensive. He’d be standing by the bouncy castle – sixteen years old in a cravat – giving everyone a warm handshake. “Hi, I’m Mitt Romney. Thanks for coming. Grab some cake.” Meanwhile, Rick Santorum is dropping spiders down a fat boy’s neck and Newt Gingrich is running around in a Buck Rogers costume (this is despite being in his early twenties).</p><p>Meanwhile, it was a night of wonder for Rick Santorum. His previous defeats in Michigan and Arizona, plus some bad culture war press,Richard Spencer – Telegraph Blogs, had caused many of us pundits to write him off. Instead he snatched victories in Oklahoma,chanel, North Dakota, Tennessee (in other news,Mulberry uk, Ron Paul’s 41 percent in Virginia was stunning and worthy of greater media attention).</p><p>I watched the returns from London, England – and you had to be there to get a sense of how tight things were. At midnight,ghd hair straighteners, it looked like a Romney walkover. He had won Vermont handsomely and enjoyed a healthy early lead in Ohio. Gingrich took Georgia, but no one cared because it’s his home state. Next year Newt will probably be buying houses in 49 other states to increase his chances for 2016.</p><p>At 1am, news broke that Santorum had taken Tennessee and Oklahoma. By 1.30,ray ban 3025, he was enjoying a 6,000 vote lead in Ohio. Thanks to rural returns, that grew to 16,cheap ghd,000 by 2am. That’s when things really got hot, and I broke open the Jaffa cakes. Santorum won North Dakota at about 2.30 and it seemed like Romney’s front runner status was all gone. Rick gave a victory speech and said that he’d been “pumping iron” in preparation (swoon). Then, at 3.30, Cleveland’s rich suburbs started to hand in their results. Santorum’s lead dipped lower and lower: 6,000 by 3.35, 2,300 by 3.45…</p><p>…Somewhere in the middle of all this, I entertained a hallucinatory fantasy of Rick Santorum being inaugurated – by the light of a burning heretic. I saw him put his hand on the Bible (Latin version) and read the oath with his unique “Are you kidding me?” expression. A million spectators rounded off the event with a rosary. Two hours later,ray ban wayfarer, the planes were headed for Iran and Planned Parenthood had seceded from the Union…</p><p>…Then, at 4.10am, Romney suddenly squeaked ahead. Not only was Santorum not performing well enough in urban areas to win,Mulberry uk, but he was doing poorly in delegate totals. Ultimately, Mitt had outspent and out organised him.</p><p>After five hours of swinging to and fro,borse burberry, what had the Republican primaries proven? That the party is woefully divided and that its logistical frontrunner,Napoli claim to have reached agreement with Rafael, Mitt Romney,Mulberry handbags, is disliked by his party’s base. Santorum is the cool kid at school who has the looks and the football skills. But he doesn’t have the money or the brains to go any further. Twenty years down the road, Mitt is head of his very own accountancy firm and Rick is shooting cans with a BB gun from the window of his trailer – a sad row of silver medals hanging from his wall. There will be no inauguration.</p></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="entry"><p></p><p>There are a lot of members of the Labour party whistling past the Euro-graveyard this morning. In the days and weeks ahead you will see them running around,Mulberry bags, convincing themselves – and trying to convince you – that .</p><p>The Tory euro divisions will deepen. Our European partners will shun us. Business will turn on the Tories. Nigel Farage will be elevated overnight from pub bore to elder statesman,Pensions savers could double their tax-free cash -,borse burberry.</p><p>Some or all of those things may come true,ray ban aviators, though I doubt it. But it doesn’t matter.</p><p>Labour has blown it,Mulberry handbags. The simple fact is they calculated David Cameron didn’t have the courage or the political space to call an in/out referendum,chanel borse. And he has,cheap ghd.</p><p>To be fair, some within Labour’s ranks have been warning this could happen. Jon Cruddas urged last year that Labour should make the pledge . Ed Balls said in May that there was now a case for Labour considering a referendum. In the same month,Mulberry handbags, the Observer reported .</p><p>But he wasn’t. And now, David Cameron has gone and shot his Dachshund.</p><p>There will be an internal Tory backlash against Cameron’s speech. But then if he’d announced Britain was leaving the EU next Monday, a section of Cameron’s back benchers would condemn him for not leaving on Sunday.</p><p>The strategic implications of the speech are clear. The Ukip threat – to the extent it ever really existed – has been extinguished. Nigel Farage now has to convince people he has a chance of seriously being the next Prime Minister,Mulberry outlet, or grudgingly tell his supporters they need to back a Tory government. David Cameron’s euro-rebels have to bite on the bullet, and accept their “victory”, or move from the euro fringe to the euro lunatic asylum. And Ed Miliband has been marginalised.</p><p>Labour’s “official” position is that a referendum remains “on the table". But that’s a fantasy. Over the past week Ed Miliband has sold the pass. Yesterday he said by calling a referendum and that it would create “years of uncertainty” for Britain. If he were now to turn around and say, “Actually,cheap ghd, I think we should have a referendum after all” he would look ridiculous.</p><p>Though to be honest,BMW Championship 2013 Lee Westwood blows it as Matteo Manassero becomes youngest PGA winner - Telegraph,hogan uomo, Labour’s going to look pretty ridiculous anyway. Ed Miliband is now going to have to spend the next two and a half years trying to convince people he stands for them, rather than big business, while explaining he won’t give them a referendum because big business doesn’t want one. He’s going to have to explain that he thinks Europe needs urgent reform, but he doesn’t plan to let the British people have a view on that reform. And he’s going to have to say that even if Europe doesn’t reform itself, we’re stuck with it anyway.</p><p>But Labour will keep on whistling,Foxs debate showcased Gingrich the unelectable, Romney the unsound and Paul the bizarre – Telegraph Blogs. All the way to the election. An election that – thanks to his speech this morning – David Cameron has an improved chance of winning.</p><p></p><p><strong> </strong></p></div> |