After Mitt Romney Wins, Media Having Hard Time Facing Facts

Last night, Mitt Romney managed to win most of the delegates available, was victorious in a majority of the states that held contests, and clawed his way back from a double-digit polling deficit in Ohio to eke out a victory. This wasn't necessarily his "best-case scenario" -- had Romney maxed out last night, he might have ended up with 250 delegates or more -- but the 210 he took was well within expectations. He got closer to the magic 1,144 number and wow gold widened his lead on his competitors. But did Romney stomp his competitors into literal puddles of bone and viscera last night? No? Well, then, sorry everyone! Last night's result was actually a split decision. Just like this year's Super Bowl was a split decision, because the New England Patriots scored 17 of the 38 points total produced in the contest. Look: Everyone understands that Mitt Romney is a historically buy wow gold weak frontrunner, and his fortunes thus far have essentially hung on his campaign's ability to marshal the forces of darkness in attack ads that cost millions. And we understand that Romney isn't seen as ideologically pure and that plenty of conservatives are leery of a candidate with a history of politically convenient flip-flopping and isolated flirtations with moderateness and/or liberalness. This is what I mean when I say that cheap wow gold Romney is having trouble "sealing the deal." But Romney's "deal-sealing" problems are more worrisome in a general election, when he'll depend on being able to field an enthusiastic army of supporters to go out and get him votes. As far as the primary process is going, he's actually doing a much better job "sealing the deal" than any of his competitors. But because this process is designed to be elongated, and because the media loves exciting storylines, wow gold eu a night where Mitt Romney went out and did everything he was supposed to do has been turned into a Pyrrhic victory for Rick Santorun and Newt Gingrich, two guys who split a smaller portion of delegates between the two of them, underperformed throughout the night (Santorum couldn't crack a vote threshold in Georgia enough to earn back some delegates; Gingrich didn't finish above third place in any other state than Georgia), and who have big limitations on their campaign infrastructure going forward. What everyone should be saying today is that we now have a race between one guy who could conceivably notch the nomination and three guys who -- acting in concert -- might be able to do enough to deny him the win by the time the primary season ends in June. Instead, we're hearing that Romney could not deliver the "knockout punch" in a contest that ended up a "Republican Split Decision" and that it's actually Romney who has "no clear path to victory."