Mixed caucus results may help Obama the most
Mixed caucus results may help Obama the most
After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party’s Iowa caucuses, some analysts concluded that the big winner may well have been a Democrat: Barack Obama.
The president’s re-election campaign team had reason to smile early today, Reuters reported, as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled to a virtual dead heat in the caucuses that kicked off the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, emerges from Iowa with his front-runner status intact, his well-funded campaign ready for a months-long fight.
But his razor-thin margin over Santorum – a social conservative who ran a low-budget campaign with little advertising – reinforces persistent doubts about Romney’s ability to win over his party’s conservative base.
It also increases the chances that Romney’s still-likely march to the Republican nomination will not be the quick kill Romney has hoped for, analysts and strategists said.
For an Obama campaign that has long operated on the assumption that it will face Romney in the Nov. 6 election, that is good news.
After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party’s Iowa caucuses, some analysts concluded that the big winner may well have been a Democrat: Barack Obama.
The president’s re-election campaign team had reason to smile early today, Reuters reported, as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled to a virtual dead heat in the caucuses that kicked off the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, emerges from Iowa with his front-runner status intact, his well-funded campaign ready for a months-long fight.
But his razor-thin margin over Santorum – a social conservative who ran a low-budget campaign with little advertising – reinforces persistent doubts about Romney’s ability to win over his party’s conservative base.
It also increases the chances that Romney’s still-likely march to the Republican nomination will not be the quick kill Romney has hoped for, analysts and strategists said.
For an Obama campaign that has long operated on the assumption that it will face Romney in the Nov. 6 election, that is good news.
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