This cartoon depicts a clearly struggling Mitt Romney trying to blow wind into the sails of his "Mitt Romney Campaign 2012" boat. The cartoonist, Clay Bennett, uses caricature and visual metaphor to illustrate the difficulty Romney is facing in getting his campaign moving. As Newt Gingrich hogs the spotlight in the wake of several candidate's drop-outs, Romney has stayed on the sidelines and has not gained very much momentum. The cartoonist's point-of-view is not explicity critical of Romney, nor is it sympathetic towards him- it is relatively neautral and simply aims to depict the current state of Romney's campaign. Mitt Romney's struggle will continue as the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries draw near- whether or not he gets the GOP ticket and "get the wind in his sails" remains to be seen.
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