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Articles by Guy Rundle 
Rundle12: the return of Santorum opens the Republican race
Republican candidate Rick Santorum may be on the way to either victory or a close second in the Minnesota and Missouri contests tonight, throwing the smooth coronation of Mitt Romney into fresh doubt.
Guy Rundle: Compared to these guys, Obama is Howard Zinn on bad acid
With five primaries and caucuses done, with party favourite Mitt Romney leading, and with the next four contests before Super Tuesday favouring him, the 2012 race for the Republican nomination is beginning to slip quietly away from the top of the news agenda.
Rundle12: Ron Paul beckons the lost boys and girls of Las Vegas
The sweet, sweet paradox of Ron Paul is that a large slice of his support comes from those who carefully and cheerfully disregard his foreign policy reviews altogether, writes Guy Rundle in Las Vegas.
Rundle12: vigorous primaries toughen candidates like fire tidies a room
With the exception of Colorado, each contest is getting some attention.
Guy Rundle: Mitt in a canter, thank god for enthusiastic amateur night
Well, that was quick. Polls closed in Florida at 8pm (noon AEST), and CNN declared victory for Mitt Romney at 8.30pm.
Rundle12: no one understands how utterly unconservative Newt Gingrich is
In Gingrich you see something triangulate between Marx, Mussolini, Toffler and sundry others, an investment in nation and species, an utter disinterest in the fate of the individual. None of his supporters really understand that, or how utterly unconservative he is.
Rundle 12: it’s great to watch, this real pirate movie
Through the wide, night streets of Tampa came the pirates — tens of thousands of them, some in full regalia, tricorne hats and eye patches, plastic cutlasses and black velvet coats, girls in low-cut frilly white shirts and face paint.
Guy Rundle: Emergency Republican scenario includes another Bush
So it’s on. And if Gingrich wins he’ll take all Florida’s delegates, 50 in total, which will put him way ahead in the delegate count.
Rundle12: down Florida way, Newt’s about to tear Mitt a fresh one afresh
They’re off the blocks in Florida today, for the fourth Republican primary (OK three primaries, one caucus) with a debate tonight in Tampa, and both Romney and Gingrich ripping each other new ones.
Rundle12: Gingrich’s secret weapon — Mitt Romney
This thing is absolutely on, and it may well go all the way to the last primary – June 26, Utah, which may well be Mormon Mitt’s ace-in-the-hole … or his last stand.
Rundle12: Mrs Gingrich throws campaign grenade at egomaniac man-baby ex
Newt Gingrich may not be able to get out of this one with his usual pious “I made mistakes” line, because this is so calculated in the telling that it reminds people Gingrich is a member of the elite he hates.
Rundle12: up close and personal with Rick Perry
Why is Texas Governor Rick Perry still in the Republican race? A campaign stop in South Carolina demonstrated why even the man himself doesn’t seem to think he can win.
Rundle12: Gingrich on points in latest debate, but Paul lit the room up
Mitt Romney has sailed about as close to defeat in South Carolina as he is likely to, with a disastrous performance in the first of two South Carolina debates.
Rundle12: the Redneck Riviera where there’s 2, 3, many Americas
Jesus, there are probably less appropriate places to spend Martin Luther King day than Myrtle Beach, a resort town at the northern end of the South Carolina coast, writes Guy Rundle from in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Guy Rundle: Pinch of piss in Sth Carolina as Santorum sells lunch pail nostalgia
There is something about Rick Santorum that gets under my skin, and it has nothing to do with his positions on sexuality.
Rundle12: ‘never has a victor (Romney) looked so utterly defeated’
Mitt Romney “won” the New Hampshire primary yesterday. But his now almost inevitable run to the Republican nomination has never looked less convincing, writes Guy Rundle from Columbia, South Carolina.
Rundle12: New Hampshire is Romney country, but not impressively
As the votes are being counted for the New Hampshire primary, the sentiment has favoured Romney, who has hustled the state like a dull man wearing down an exciting woman.
Rundle12: no place for a Huntsman in either the woods or a diner
We were all in the Puritan diner and ice-cream store when Jon Huntsman lunged towards me.
Guy Rundle: Romney fails to impress in New Hampshire
Republican Mitt Romney tried to be casual, relaxed and engaging in New Hampshire. It didn’t work. Crikey’s Guy Rundle begins his US roadshow in the bellwether state to report on this week’s crucial primary.
Rundle: goodbye 2011, and Knut who died from coke and hookers
Giffords, Zsa Zsa, Giddings, Merkel, ******, Moran, Osama, Obama, Mladic, Joyce, Winehouse, Rupert, Bolt, Hitchens, Kim … and Knut. Your handy reminder of the year that was.
Guy Rundle: Refugee debate dominated by compromise, not core promises
The anti-mandatory detention campaign, which came from the Left, has a simple demand — that the country live up to its freely taken-on treaty obligations. Why have commentators like Robert Manne lost sight of that?
Rundle in Nth Korea: Stalinist hermit kingdom meets dystopian science-fiction
Anyone who has been to North Korea will hope to Christ that some process, from the great Kim Jong-un liberalisation to a military coup against the family, will loosen the stays sufficiently so that people might be able to feed themselves.
Rundle's ruminations: The war decade, the Enlightenment armed, and 101 uses for a dead Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was a well-known journalist, based in the US, and quite the bon vivant, or so I hear! He died last week. Perhaps some of you knew this already.
