I swear, this is the only place on Earth where both Gary Johnson and John Sununu are being considered as serious contenders in 2012...
This place is weird like that.
This place considers Romney, Huckabee, and Palin serious contenders. Sununu would be more serious than either of them. By any definition.
I don't understand really what you mean. Mitt, Mike, and Sarah have all been anointed by the media as primary contenders, and in polls are frequently leading the field.
Sununu got defeated convincingly in the last election; I can't see how he winds up as a 'serious contender' with that. Sure, Richard Nixon made a major comeback after his two defeats, but that was an outlier, and Nixon was a national figure in the 1950s and early 1960s. John Sununu isn't.
Maybe he takes back his Senate seat or wins the Governor's mansion. But I can't see him run for president in 2012.
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