With his performance in the first debate It looked like Mitt Romney might well have been on his way to achieving something that is very difficult to do, and that is to defeat a sitting president.
Even when Mitt Romney wins, it only opens another can of worms.
Romney grabbed easy Super Tuesday wins in his home state of Massachusetts and nearby Vermont, and put a huge score of delegates from his Virginia victory on his scorecard -- where neither Rick Santorum nor Newt Gingrich made the ballot.