Romney campaign


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: ‘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.

US08 media wrap: where to now for the Mac?

Coming into Super Tuesday, the Republican race for the nomination still had an air of competition about it. But things changed quickly once the pollling stations close, writes Thomas Hunter.