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| Last Edited | RP Jan 15, 2008 11:26pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 03:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Romney wins! Romney wins! 39-30 over McCain!
The networks are calling today's Michigan primary for former the Massachusetts governor, awarding him his first gold medal in a major contest (sorry, Wyoming) after a string of disappointing silvers in Iowa and New Hampshire. Romney defeats a resurgent John McCain, who in the wake of his shocking comeback in New Hampshire looked last week like he would march to victory in the Great Lakes State and become the first Republican candidate to fully claim the frontrunner mantle. Despite the McCain camp's early attempts to dismiss a potential Romney win as pure native-son favoritism--Romney's father George ran American Motors in Detroit and served as a popular Republican governor in the 1960s--tonight's results represent an unequivocal setback for the Arizona senator, a tenuous revival for Romney and, for the Republican field as a whole, a totally fractured, leaderless race heading into Saturday's South Carolina primary.
How did Romney win? By ditching the inauthentic "consensus conservative" guise, reminding local voters of his Michigan roots, promising to "rebuild" the auto industry (McCain admitted that jobs weren't coming back) and dropping more than $2 million on television advertising. |
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