In heavily Republican Utah, the party's nomination, decided by primary voters, is the crucial contest since Democrats are so deeply outnumbered.
Instead of having the Republican nomination decided by millions of voters nationwide, it would have been decided by the voters in just three states – and, of course, by Romney's sturdy donor base.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who said after the Iowa caucuses that he would return to Texas to "assess" whether there was a path for him to the Republican nomination, decided on Wednesday that there is a way forward.
(In an interesting twist on group polarization, some liberal bloggers, who had initially not been keen on Sunstein's nomination, decided at this point that it must be O.K.; as one of them put it, "If Glenn Beck and the other loons are against him, how bad could he be?") The Web is certainly a transformative technology, just as TV and radio and newspapers once were.
One, it could influence whether Mr. Trump, Mr. Ventura's choice for the party's presidential nomination, decides to run.
In "1600 Penn," at 9 30, President Gilchrist (Bill Pullman), befuddled over making a Supreme Court nomination, decides to take his family members to their ranch to clear his head.
In the following years, nominations were decided long before California's primaries in June.
The nominations are decided by an industry panel, with the winners voted for by the public via the Mobo website.
Diana Adams of Indiana, where the primary came after the nominations were decided on March 7, said, "We ate everybody's dust".
Unless the measures are brought into better alignment in the next several weeks, 2012 will represent a key test between competing political science theories about how nominations are decided.
