One of the great ironies of this week’s primaries, which brought a level of democracy to the Democratic nominating process unlike anything we have ever seen before, is that the result may have been to put the choice into the hands of party hacks. In this week’s dead-tree TIME (timenotdotcom), my story looks at the road ahead, and occasional Swampland intern Michael Duffy explores the prospect of a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton ticket.
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- Romney makes his conservative case to National Review.
- Why “severely conservative” was not a good phrase for Romney.
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