ROMNEY'S NEW HAMPSHIRE WIN.

The news headlines today show how the Republican Party's nomination race is picking up, with Mitt Romney being the winner of the New Hampshire primary.

That is naturally good for the party, but the win there and the one in Iowa do not constitute a win in the 2012 general election.

Why? Because President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have not started to focus on the president's reelection bid as yet, as the president himself has been so busy with the affairs of the nation, and his party waits for whomever will come out as his challenger from the Republican field.

Romney's win in NH was not a phenomenal occurrence, because he has been campaigning there for months, and until his handlers had told him to spend some time in Iowa, he would have remained in the Granite state somehow. It was his favorite place (or was it hideout?).

Nevertheless, the Iowa and the NH wins did not signify as gauging what would the political atmosphere look like, come November of this year. Therefore, there was no big deal about seeing flashy headlines with respect to how the process of selecting an opposition candidate was going (or what it, what all that noise was about).

Suffice it to say that the season was one for choosing a contender by the Republicans, and so, much of the media attention would be concentrated on that than any other topic.

It was obvious that Romney was the likely person, who would win the nomination in the long run; but any of his rivals, like Ron Paul or Huntsman or Santorum could jump ahead of him in the Southern states of the country, where voters there have an entirely different view of him.

He could not be considered as the unblemished governor of Massachusetts, because there were so many things he did not do right in that state. His business endeavors have been strewn with failures, such as the Bain debacle, just as much as his accomplishments.

All that, the good, the bad and the ugly, would be laid bare in the coming months and thoroughly scrutinized by the American people, especially if he should be the Republican nominee.

As far as the other candidates in the nomination race were concerned, Romney was still just one of them, fighting to gain the nod of the party. He was not out of the woods as the public was being told to believe; and in fact, he could not be, if Rick Perry, governor of Texas, could help it.

No one would say that the Republican Party was in complete disarray, the notion that its members have not had their decisions crystallized about who should be their presidential candidate for the 2012 general election could not be hidden.

Meanwhile, the Democrats would not make it too easy for the Republicans to grab all "the magic and jubilation" that seemed to be happening at the present moment. They were only bidding their time until when they would fully launch their own version of the political hoopla to retain the White House.

President Obama would demonstrate his achievements before the nation, and he would make the claim that despite all the setbacks, such as the Japan's Tsunami and nuclear meltdown, the Arab Spring and the European economic problems, the country has done extremely well under the circumstances, and during his watch.

There still remained a lot to be done to put the economy on a sound track, and to reduce the high unemployment rate; and he was the one who could do both.

Romney's NH win would not have any bearing on his efforts then.