Its possible the Republican race may reach a tippingpoint at which Romneys rivals may see the handwriting onthe wall and end their campaigns even if he technically isshort of the 1,144 delegates, Rhodes Cook, the editor of anonpartisan political newsletter, said in a telephone interview.
Date: Mar 21, 2012
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Delegates won't add up to GOP nomination until mid-May
"You often have a tipping point that's short of that," said Rhodes Cook, a political analyst and editor of the Rhodes Cook letter. "If that guy gets up to a certain percentage, say two-thirds of the delegates, and they have a clear lead of a couple hundred delegates, he reaches a point where people
Date: Mar 07, 2012
Category: U.S.
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After Iowa: A viewer's guide to what's ahead in the GOP race
"Since the Ford-Reagan fight and the ascent of more and more primaries earlier and earlier, there has been basically only one scenario, and that's the quick knockout," says Rhodes Cook, a veteran political analyst and editor of the non-partisan Rhodes Cook Letter. After early stumbles, Ronald Reagan
In an essay for Sabato's Crystal Ball, senior columnist Rhodes Cook observes that the first four contests -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida -- will bind only 115 delegates, out of 2,282 total. In fact, "heading into Super Tuesday [March 6], only 15 percent of the GOP delegates will
Date: Dec 12, 2011
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Are GOP Elites Going Around Gingrich, Romney With Valentine's Day Switcheroo?
Rhodes Cook, writing for Universityof Virginia Professor Larry Sabatos blog CrystalBall, outlines this strategy. The doomsday option for Republican elitescenters on the low number of delegates that are available prior to SuperTuesday on March 6 (with many state contests being docked delegates
Date: Dec 08, 2011
Category: U.S.
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Take On Obama Over Libya
Political analyst Rhodes Cook says the last time foreign policy was a decisive issue in a U.S. presidential election campaign was in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter lost his bid for re-election in part because of the Iranian hostage crisis that began late in 1979 and dragged on through the election
As Rhodes Cook points out inThe Wall Street Journal, in this more volatile era in congressional politics a swing of 25 to 30 House seats every election cycle could be par for the course.
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