Mitt Romney’s hopes of securing the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election received a major boost today after the wealthy former governor of Massachusetts easily won a poll of delegates from his party who were asked who should take on Barack Obama.
Rivals from the right of the party, including Sarah Palin, finished well behind the more moderate Romney in the poll held at a meeting of Republicans in New Hampshire, which usually hosts the first in a series of state primary elections to sift through the field of presidential hopefuls.
