Romney could end campaign on Wednesday

[BeyondGeography]

Romney Cedes Northeast to McCain

DENVER (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney is conceding the bulk of the Northeast to rival John McCain, counting instead on his home state of Massachusetts, a split in California and wins in a series of caucus states to extend his presidential campaign beyond Super Tuesday.

Missing from Romney's latest campaign schedule were winner-take-all states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which account for 180 of the 1,023 delegates at stake. The omissions were telling with voting in 21 GOP contests on Tuesday.

The former Massachusetts governor was in Colorado Friday and planned to attend the funeral of Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley on Saturday in Utah. Romney also scheduled campaign events in Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia before arriving home Tuesday.

Colorado and Minnesota are caucuses states where a grass-roots effort could help secure a win, while West Virginia will award its delegates at a convention Romney plans to address before flying to Massachusetts to both vote and await the returns.

Romney has also deployed four of his five sons to Maine, Montana and Idaho, which hold caucuses on Saturday and Tuesday, and Alaska, which has a party convention on Tuesday.

If he fails to capture enough delegates to offset McCain's likely wins in other states and strong showing in California, where the Arizona senator has the backing of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Romney could end his campaign in Boston on Wednesday.

During a news conference Friday outside a Ford dealership here, he passed up three opportunities to declare he would carry on if he fails to surpass McCain in the Super Tuesday voting.

''I really thought it would all be over, you know, early in January, and now we're going to go into February, and I just can't predict what will happen in February,'' he said, ''so we'll see what happens.''

This week the multimillionaire former venture capitalist authorized only a modest $3 million advertising buy, after committing $35 million of his own money last year in an effort to lock up the nomination early with back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Romney.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[graywarrior]

1. I hope he cries like a Ken doll

[DesEtoiles]

2. wow- that's $50 million gone

[DesEtoiles]

3. dup!

[milkyway]

12. actually, it's some republican voters that have been duped by Romney!

[DesEtoiles]

14. Mittens sings "Bet On It" from High School Musical 2

Bet on me!

[no name no slogan]

4. As I've said before, America is not ready for a colored president

America is just not ready for an artificially orange president. Not yet, Mitt.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4304309

[Qutzupalotl]

5. That's too bad.

I was looking forward to saying Obama-Rama a lot.

White, uptight and brittle vs. cool, ethnic and...well, a little less uptight.

[TexasObserver]

6. They'll promise him Commerce or Treasury if he pulls out.

And he'll take it.

Except he'll never see it, because they'll lose in November.

[Olney Blue]

7. I didn't like the way he made fun of Massachusett's liberals.

[sellitman]

8. He will flip flop on this trust me. n/t

[Danger Mouse]

9. Don't count Mittens out yet.

Switch McCain's pills on him, Mittens! You can still do it!

[AndyTiedye]

10. May be Worth Crossing Over to Vote for Mittens

This asshole being nominated by the Repiggies is our best chance of winning.

McCain will be very difficult, if not impossible to beat with what is left of our field of candidates.
We are LOSING to him in the polls.

[K Gardner]

11. I'm sorry, but I find this disturbing ! As should any of us who know what they've done to some

of OUR candidates this year. Romney had a shot.. and I imagine he has millions of supporters who are as upset about what the media is doing to him as we are about what they've done to Edwards, Biden, Kucinich, etc. McCain has been coronated. Romeny has been marginalized. I find it distressing, not because he is anything special, but because like others already gone, he is a candidate for President and should have had a fair chance in a democracy NOT controlled by the media.

[Renew Deal]

13. And republican heads explode

:nuke: