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GOP slugfest could drag on till June
The party loses some ground as Mitt Romney's conservative foes dig in, forcing him to fight for each delegate.
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Mitt Romney waves with his wife Ann at his "Super Tuesday" primary election night rally in Boston. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)
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By Paul West, Washington Bureau
10:04 p.m. CST, March 7, 2012
Reporting from Washington— A presidential primary season that opened with great promise for Republicans is entering its second half with a flawed front-runner and shaky prospects for victory in the fall.
Mitt Romney won six states Tuesday, extending his lead in convention delegates. But in some respects he came out of the day in worse shape than he began it. His scrappy rival, Rick Santorum, has been reinvigorated by wins in three states, and Romney's hopes for a swift end to a brutal GOP campaign have disappeared. Now, the Romney camp is being forced to buckle down for what could be a prolonged struggle for delegates that runs well into the spring, and possibly beyond, to the national convention in August.
"I am prepared to fight all the way to become the nominee," Romney told CNBC on Wednesday. "We think that will get done before the convention. But one thing I can tell you for sure is there's not going to be a brokered convention, where some new person comes in and becomes the nominee. It's going to be one of the four people that are still running."
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