"Far more than in recent years, the primary in New York means something because the delegate count is going to matter," he said.
Mitt Romney's Republican rivals enter the final four days of the South Carolina primary in search of something — anything — to significantly alter the basic trajectory of their party's presidential nominating contest.
The potential benefit for patients initiating in primary care was that they would have the chance to initiate methadone in primary care, something not currently possible in the standard system of care.
Similarly, he writes in Primary Truths, "Something lacking extension is required for the substance of bodies, otherwise there would be no source [principium] for the reality of phenomena or for true unity… But since atoms are excluded, what remains is something lacking extension, analogous to the soul, which they once called form or species".
Perhaps the argument is that Mr. Romney closes strongly in crucial primary states — something that was true in Arizona, Florida and Michigan.
And so the thinness of his re-election victory two years ago, by just 677 votes in the Democratic primary, was something of an embarrassment.
Given all this, it shouldn't be a surprise that Whitman engaged in a very messy and unsuccessful attempt to clear the Republican primary field, something which Brown succeeded in doing on the Democratic side last fall.
Literature offers an explanation for Trump's inability to follow the pundits' summertime urgings that he put aside the centrifugal id he displayed in the primaries for something more "Presidential" in the general.
While each of these positions is troubling in their own right, when I consider them together (eliminating all the static inherent in a hard-fought primary campaign), something else emerges for me about Governor Romney.
On the surface, the up-in-the-air primary would be something for the party to lament.
