Could the third time be the charm?
The question is whether Mitt Romney, who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, then won it in 2012 only to lose in the general election, will throw his hat into the ring again in 2016. Normally, I would dismiss talk of “Romney 2016” as reflecting the fevered imaginations of Beltway pundits facing a slow news day.
But a quick look at the prediction markets gave me pause. For sure, the Republican field is wide open, with no candidate considered to have a better than one-in-sixchance of winning. It’s a clear contrast with the Democratic field, in which Hillary Rodham Clinton is given a two-in-three chance of winning the nomination.
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