He appears to be well on the way.

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Third, he appears humble and well-spoken.

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Put simply, there are enough unpledged delegates and super delegates on the Republican side that if consolidation toward Governor Romney appears to be clear and inevitable, he could well get support from delegates not currently elected or pledged to him, as the process winds towards May and perhaps June.

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He appears to be gaining some supporters in New Hampshire as well.

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He appears regularly at law schools around the South, as well as in states covered by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, mostly in the northern Midwest. (Each Justice represents one or two Circuits, and Thomas long supervised the Eighth, though he no longer does.) Thomas rarely uses a prepared text, and often simply takes questions from students for an hour or more.

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He wears a kafkan that appears to be pin striped and sports a well-trimmed beard, save for a few straggled hairs.

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"It appears from this data that our concerns were well-founded, " he said.

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In doing so he appears to be working against both his central bank and his minister of finance, as well as conventional market wisdom.

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He returned to the executive suite in 2009, part of a shakeup at the company that appears to have served it well.

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