Romney's weak sweeps

The mainstream media is portraying tonight's Romney win in New Hampshire as a big one and saying he swept the first two contests. Technically both are true. He won by double digits and won in Iowa.

But let's be real here. Romney won Iowa by 8 votes over a guy -- Santorum -- who was polling in the low single digits just a couple of months ago and appears not to have cracked 40 percent in a state that was a foregone conclusion (he lives there and was governor next door, has huge name recognition and a massive organization).

Rather than showing his strength, the results demonstrate that Romney still has not won over his party and is likely vulnerable to a unified effort by the anyone-but-Romney group. Ron Paul, who is a special case, is at around 24 percent, but John Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum totaled 37 percent together -- almost exactly the same figure Romney collected.

If Romney was going to be a real presidential contender, wouldn't have had distinguished himself better from the pack than he has? Especially when his opponents have been Mo, Larry and Curly Joe.

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