With Ron Paul having lost the nomination, his dedicated supporters are swarming lightly guarded Republican redoubts in an attempt to infiltrate the top echelons of the party.

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With his victories in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, Mitt Romney now looks unbeatable. He has more than half the delegates necessary to clinch the nomination. Republicans are signaling boredom with the contest, and it's becoming harder and harder to justify Rick Santorum's ongoing insurgency.

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Tim Stanley says Sarah Palin lacks Romney's elitism and Santorum's extremism, and if she were running, she'd have the nomination sewn up.

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Don Berwick spent 18 months as the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, making him the point man for the Obama administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He began in the post in July 2010 and resigned last November, in the face of Republican pledges to block his nomination in the Senate. Republican legislators seized on remarks he made praising Britain’s National Health Service as an “example” for the United States to follow. Many accused him of supporting the “rationing” of services, a claim Berwick has rejected. Read full article > >

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Conversations: Don Berwick looks ahead on health care

Barack Obama has revealed his nomination for the new head of the World Bank. He is a Korean-born American academic called Jim Yong Kim, who has a sideline in musical performance, as John McManus reports.

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As the Republican presidential campaign moves into critical Super Tuesday battleground states this week, one contest looms more super than the rest: Ohio, a giant electoral prize that will yield 66 delegates in the nomination fight and is a must-win for the Republican nominee this fall. Read full article > >

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In Ohio, fierce primary fight may hurt GOP’s chances for the fall

The longer the campaign season goes on, the more dissatisfied Republican voters seem to be with their choice in candidates. So it’s no surprise that, even this late in the race, there remains plenty of buzz that someone perfect might still jump in — to win the nomination outright in the remaining primaries, or to build up enough steam to seize it in a contested GOP convention in Tampa. Read full article > >

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The longer the campaign season goes on, the more dissatisfied Republican voters seem to be with their choice in candidates. So it’s no surprise that, even this late in the race, there remains plenty of buzz that someone perfect might still jump in — to win the nomination outright in the remaining primaries, or to build up enough steam to seize it in a contested GOP convention in Tampa. Read full article > >

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A brokered convention or late-arriving winner? Probably not.

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Romney Backer Endorses Santorum

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Romney Backer Endorses Santorum

Business Secretary Vince Cable is in a political stand off after his nomination for the university access chief was turned down by MPs.

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Cable stands by fair access chief

If the former governor wins the nomination.

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Gingrich Donor Will Support Romney

As New Hampshire voters began to cast ballots on Tuesday, the Republican candidates sought to slow Mitt Romney’s march to the nomination, branding him as a corporate villain.

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Voting in N.H. Opens as Romney Fends Off Attacks

Don't get too riled up over tonight's results. Since 1976, only three people who won the Iowa caucuses ended up winning the nomination: Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and George W. Bush.

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Notes on Iowa Caucuses Past

DUBUQUE, Iowa — The Republican presidential candidates opened an intensive week of campaigning in wide-open Iowa Tuesday with the embattled Newt Gingrich casting rival Mitt Romney as an establishment defender of big government and accusing Romney’s supporters of lying about his record. Gingrich, who has fallen after holding the lead a month ago, went to work trying to limit the damage done by the millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads aimed at him in recent weeks and counter the growing impression that Romney is suddenly well-positioned to win in Iowa and consolidate a grip on the nomination. Read full article > >

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Gingrich fights back, aiming at Romney as Iowa caucuses heat up