Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
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Iowa is over. New Hampshire is done. South Carolina is finished. Florida is next. That field of eight or ten candidates for the republican nomination for president is effectively down to two. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are still hanging on, but it appears it is a race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
Tens of millions of dollars were spent on campaigns of the fallen. Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman and Jon Huntsman are all gone. Some had their moments getting a taste of being the temporary leader. Yet while all that money was spent very few voters have actually taken the liberty to cast a ballot.
South Carolina saw a turn out of some 600,000 voters statewide. New Hampshire had 250,000. Iowa was approximately 110,000. This field has been trimmed to the finalists by fewer than one million voters total. It’s a remarkable responsibility for a select few early voters in a campaign that will culminate in the November general election.
Delegates have just barely started to slide to any of the camps. That volume doesn’t really pick up until March 6th and Super Tuesday. New Yorkers don’t have a say until April 24th. That’s a long way off. Who knows what controversies will have come and gone by then.
Some are still talking about a convention that matters this summer. An undecided republican electorate may still be torn over the positives and negatives that Romney and Gingrich bring to the table. It would be remarkable if it turns out those early primary voters didn’t quite get it right and the party has some as yet unknown choice to make.
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