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Following the evictions, and a winter of consolidation and strategic planning, organisers hope spring in the northern hemisphere will bring a renewed energy to the Occupy movement, writes Nigel O’Connor, freelance journalist and correspondent.

We did but see him passing by … like the Hindenberg on the way towards that mast.

Rick Santorum, the fundamentalist ex-senator from Pennsylvania, conceded defeat overnight and suspended his campaign. Although he has not officially endorsed Mitt Romney.

Republicans seized on Barack Obama’s open-mike gaff as evidence he would betray American interests as soon as he no longer had to fear electoral retribution. But Mitt Romney was equally stupid.

Well, that was quick. Polls closed in Florida at 8pm (noon AEST), and CNN declared victory for Mitt Romney at 8.30pm.

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.

The Republican presidential campaign has already provided plenty of drama and entertainment, but things are about to get even more interesting.

Of the Republican contenders — Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain — one name stands out. America’s pundit class have been giving a lot of attention to the pizza tycoon.

Now, for perhaps the first time since George Wallace in 1968, a true son of the Confederacy is in the running for the presidency.

Barack Obama’s Puerto Rico visit is widely seen as a bid for votes on the mainlandand for Hispanic votes more generally. That poses a particular problem for the Republican Party.

Seven candidates for the Republican nomination for president assembled for the first debate in New Hampshire. But the most visible candidate — Sarah Palin — wasn’t there. And the rest were reduced to jokes.

The first major debate of the 2012 US presidential primaries took place in New Hampshire Monday night, giving each of the seven candidates a chance to rise above the widespread view that the field is a poor one.

The Republican presidential field in the US, which not so long ago just looked like a confused mess, is rapidly sorting itself out.

For the second year in a row the Conservative Political Action Conference chose libertarian Ron Paul as its preferred Republican candidate for president in the gathering’s “straw poll”. But it’s just a sideshow.

Back when this crazy race began, Mitt Romney seemed to have it all. But paralysed by a bid to cater everyone, the Republican presidential nomination was never meant to be for this Mormon, writes Sophie Black.

Even as George W Bush repeated, yet again, his determination to “stay the course” in Iraq, the war looked like claiming another high profile casualty.