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(YAHOO) Mitt Romney kicks off what may be the most fraught week of his political career today. In one week, Republican primary voters in Michigan (and perhaps less so here in Arizona) will make clear whether the presumptive frontrunner for the Republican nomination can continue to claim that mantle or if he has to adapt to an entirely upended and rejiggered contest.
Long before it became clear that Gov. Romney was not going to be able to wrap up the 2012 GOP presidential nomination in January, he and his campaign often pointed to a robust campaign war chest and political organization that was ready to carry him through the long march to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Of course, back then such talk was employed against his opponents more as bluster and boasting. Today, it is offered up as evidence of Romney’s professed ability to survive.
“The goal is to stay ahead in the delegate count. Mitt Romney is ahead in the delegate count. He’s always been ahead in the delegate count. And I think he’ll stay that way,”
