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Mitt Romney extended his delegate lead in the Republican presidential race with victories in five Super Tuesday states, giving him a measured dose of momentum as he tries to tighten his grip on the GOP nomination.

But in a continued sign of strong opposition to Romney in the GOP’s conservative base, he was unable to stop Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich from claiming Super Tuesday successes of their own.

In the past ten years, as self-proclaimed conservatives have increased from sixty-two per cent of the Republican Party to seventy-one per cent, the percentage of Republicans describing themselves as moderates has declined from thirty-one per cent to twenty-three per cent. The number who call themselves “liberal” is now close to the number who describe themselves as Aleut or Eskimo.