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New Iowa totals don’t change Mitt Romney’s original campaign calculus

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 19, 2012

New precinct totals showing Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney by 34 votes in Iowa instead of losing by eight aren’t just more than four times as bad as the original results for the GOP frontrunner. It’s the latest tarnish on the aura of inevitability that Romney has been trying to buff throughout the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. But what it does not change is that Romney has readied not for a coronation but a long fight.

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