Marshall thinks that "Romney still has close to a lock on the GOP nomination", however. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
I'd said a few years back that I wasn't worried about Palin, even in a tough economy, because the public here had made up its mind that it would never vote for her.
Gingrich isn't in quite as bad shape as she is, but he's not far from it. The bulk of the polls put Obama above 50% and up by 10+ against Gingrich, and with his approval moving up slowly but steadily, I'd expect that gap to widen if the trend continues.
A Gingrich nomination could be very ugly for the GOPers in November. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
