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After the Romney attack on Trump the latest GOP Nominee TV debate

After the Romney attack on Trump the latest GOP Nominee TV debate

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The debate headline that sums up the GOP racepic.twitter.com/eFX6Gwnpl8 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 4, 2016 Only a few hours after the anti Trump speech by 2012 nominee Mitt Romney the four remaining contenders were back on the stage together for the latest GOP debate. This was the summing up by Taegan Goddard of Political Wire “.. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio attacked each other in the harshest terms yet. Trump referred to “Little Marco” while defending the size of…

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Trump’s betting price weakens as the 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, goes to war against the front-runner

Trump’s betting price weakens as the 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, goes to war against the front-runner

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The tax return section of @MittRomney' speech against Trump is the most potent https://t.co/8NKdHVxGfC pic.twitter.com/IuypPcSVsc — Tim Montgomerie ?? (@montie) March 3, 2016 There’ve been movements in the past hour on the Betfair Echange following a hard hitting speech by the 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, against Donald Trump. He didn’t mince his words and the attack is getting a lot of coverage in the US media. The question is whether it will have any impact or could it even…

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The White House Race, the referendum and the political bets of the week in the PB/Polling Matters TV Show

The White House Race, the referendum and the political bets of the week in the PB/Polling Matters TV Show

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Our fourth pilot TV show sees Keiran Pedley of Polling Matters and myself welcome the Labour peer and Oxford academic, Lord (Stewart) Wood of Anfield and the media relations director of William Hill, Graham Sharpe. The issues covered were how well Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did in the Super Tuesday primaries; whether they are now certainties to be their party nominees; the EU referendum campaign and the prospects of Boris becoming Cameron’s successor. Also the third strand of this…

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Super Tuesday: Trump and Clinton didn’t quite get the predicted clean sweeps but they’re both stronger favourites

Super Tuesday: Trump and Clinton didn’t quite get the predicted clean sweeps but they’re both stronger favourites

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Results from Real Clear Politics Post Super Tuesday odds from. Ladbrokes pic.twitter.com/6wD953GsxI — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 2, 2016 The expectation before last night was that Trump would probably win all but one of the eleven states. As it turned out Trump took 8. Clinton was expected to have almost a clean sweeps but lost four. This is, of course, a battle not about delegate totals and throughout the night one of the big features of Marco Rubio’s performance was…

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Super Tuesday – the night goes on

Super Tuesday – the night goes on

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Super Tuesday results as at 0200 GMT via @politicalwire pic.twitter.com/lS5iKxpZjw — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 2, 2016 YouGov Conservative members leadership poll hasBoris 43%Osborne 22%May 19%Javid 7% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 2, 2016

Clinton and Trump should be even hotter favourites tonight if the 11 Super Tuesday primaries go according to the polls

Clinton and Trump should be even hotter favourites tonight if the 11 Super Tuesday primaries go according to the polls

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March opens in the 2016 White House Race with primaries in 11 different systems including big ones such as Texas, Minesota and Massachusetts. Texas is the one which will get the most focus because it is the home state of Ted Cruz. He has to win there to even have slim hopes of making it to the nomination. Cruz has said putting pressure on himself: “There is no doubt, any candidate who cannot win his home state has real problems”…

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Never mind Super Tuesday, get ready for Mega March

Never mind Super Tuesday, get ready for Mega March

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In three weeks’ time, the nominations could be locked up The preliminaries are all but over with the first phase of the presidential primaries doing the job assigned them: knocking out (most of) the also-rans and narrowing the field to the serious contenders and the hobby-horseists. The game of musical chairs that is Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada left Huckabee, Fiorina, Christie, Bush, Rand Paul, Santorum and O’Malley all standing after the music stopped. Thank you and good…

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Only the FBI can stop Hillary now

Only the FBI can stop Hillary now

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But what happens if they do? It could have been very different. Had Bernie Sanders won the caucuses in Iowa and Nevada, Hillary Clinton’s campaign would now be in disarray. Rather than today’s South Carolina primary being a foretaste of the likely landslide she’ll win on Super Tuesday, it would be seen as a must-win vote simply to remain in the race; Super Tuesday itself would most likely have been a closer contest building off the back of a hat-trick…

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