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President Obama in Des Moines, Iowa May 24. Photo by: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages Deadlocked: past participle, past tense of dead·lock (verb) Cause (a situation or opposing parties) to come to a point where no progress can be made because of…

Mitt Romney campaigns in Las Vegas Tuesday. Photo by: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images With little fanfare, Willard Mitt Romney crossed an important threshold Tuesday. The 65-year-old former governor of Massachusetts clinched enough primary delegates to earn the Republican Party's nomination to…