[cotton1706]

First Iowa, then Maine, now Michigan.

This first for momentum, the other two would be too embarrasing to lose.

Totally intentional. All stops will be pulled...that is until he’s up against a democrat. Then he will shrink back and be civil, because there will no longer be a danger of a non-fellow-traveler becoming president.

[I_be_tc]

Florida was not supposed to be winner take all. And Virginia being closed to only Romney and Paul.

[Wallace T.]

Romney will manipulate Ron Paul when needed to hammer Rick Santorum and then pull dirty tricks on him in Maine, probably taking a win by having his allies exclude pro-Paul towns from the count. You also have to wonder if Michigan officials did not play with the Santorum numbers in western Michigan, an evangelical stronghold, to keep his margins less than 10% over Romney.