It's not over yet, despite efforts by the Romney crowd to declare their own inevitability.
"Despite Romney's effort to turn positive" - are you kidding? What evidence is there to back up this assertion? Journalism is dead, or the AP editor is clearly bised..
With friends like these, who needs enemies? As with the liberal media, voters need to be alert to the agenda behind other reporters, and not believe everything they read, even from usually reliable sources.
Romney is trying to maintain the illusion of inevitability. Note that his campaign just challenged the ballot access petitions of Rick Santorum in Illinois last Friday to try to prevent Illinois voters from having a choice in the March 20 primary, because he can't take the chance that conservatives will vote for somebody else, especially downstate rather than in the more liberal Chicago area. They challenged delegate slates in 10 of 14 districts where Santorum's campaign filed candidates (out of 18 districts). By contrast, Newt is on the ballot with full slates in all 18 districts. Rick Perry didn't file slates, so the election in Illinois is just Romney, Gingrich, and Paul with the exception of a few districts. Don't buy the myth of his inevitability. Since when do we call elections after 1% of the vote in a biased district (NH)?
Pray for rain on Sept 6. Not something harmful to the good folks of Charlotte, like a hurricane. A nice, severe thunderstorm at the right time should do nicely to spoil the party and disrupt the planned media circus.
Huntsman didn't even file to get on the ballot in VA (Mar 6) or IL (Mar 20). How is he a credible candidate at this point? He spent a bundle in NH trying to appear relevant, and failed. Meanwhile, Rick Perry failed to come up with delegates for the ballot in IL, too. Santorum got some Cain supporters to help him at the last minute, but they failed to get enough signatures in 14 of 18 districts, and Romney's delegates challenged to keep them off the ballot rather than take any chances of losing. So much for the myth that his victory is inevitable. If that were true, there was no need to challenge Santorum. Ron Paul's supporters screwed up his petition, so he'll probably be off the IL ballot too. It is going to be a race between Romney and Newt in Illinois as the last primary before all the "winner takes all" primaries start in April. Romney may still be trying to persuade the media that his nomination is inevitable, but he only has about 12 of the 1144 delegates he needs so far. Since when do we call elections with only 1% of the votes in from a biased district?
Ron Paul actually is vulnerable to challenge in Illinois if anybody cares to do so. His supporters filed a petition with the wrong address on it. They gave the campaign HQ address in Springfield VA. The law requires the registered voting address of the candidate. Rick Perry's team made the same mistake. Santorum only filed in 14 of 18 districts, and 10 of those were without enough signatures if challenged. Only the Romney and Gingrich campaigns got it right - with 54 delegates in play on March 20.
He should be worried now about voters giving him the pink slip.
Really? How hard would it be to make a nuclear facility inaccessible for generations to come, even if it is still buried there? Remember Chernobyl? Fukushima? This is just more meaningless rhetoric out of Iran for domestic consumption.