and so on will be on the exact same playing field to get to the first page granted the domain name is the same. Dont believe me, post a thread on warrior forum, backlinks forum, or any of the top SEO forums. This has been rehashed time and time again.....
Good domain. We will need about 16,000 inbound links. If this is the one we go with we need to get the links on as many blogs, with 100s of pages, as you can.
Make sure to mix up the keywords. Mitt Romney, Romney, Romney Care, ect.
Make sure we deep link the site as much as we can. ie link to mittromney101.com/romneycare
We really should be doing this on more than one site to better our odds of getting to the first page.
again, learn SEO 101, differentiating anchor texts is a myth. if your going for just "mitt romney" then you need to use that anchor text 100% of the time. And yes keyword relevancy in the domain is a major factor. Just because you can power past some other domains with tons of links doesn't mean you should make it harder on yourself. get as high of a keyword match as possible in the domain.