Posted on 12/29/2007, 6:53:42 PM by greyfoxx39
Mitt Romney, who a month ago believed his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire were bought and paid for, is now scrambling to remain competitive in both states, continuing to outspend his adversaries by a wide margin, saturating the Iowa and New Hampshire airwaves with anti-Huckabee and anti-McCain commercials.
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........the past four weeks have marked an extraordinary setback for the Romney campaign.
Since January 1, 2007, the former Massachusetts governor has spent well in excess of $80 million, including at least $17.4 million of his own money, paying media fees in excess of $30 million, salaries of roughly $16 million, and consulting payments of more than $15 million.
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Since those halcyon days, however, Romney has fallen into second place in Iowa, running roughly four points behind former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. In New Hampshire, Romney's double digit lead has steadily eroded, while John McCain, who was trailing by 11 to 18 points at the start of December, has surged to within 3.5 percentage points.
Romney, in the assessment of most political analysts, can still pull it out. But even after accommodating social issue conservatives by abandoning his formerly moderate stance on such cultural/moral matters as gay rights and abortion, Romney finds himself struggling to convince voters that he is a legitimate conservative while simultaneously ripping into the ideological credentials of his competitors
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Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times asked Republican voters, "Regardless of your choice for president, who do you think has been best at saying what they believe, rather than saying what they think the voters want to hear: Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson?" Romney, at 8 percent, trailed the field, with Huckabee leading at 20 percent, Giuliani at 18, Thompson at 15 and McCain at 13.
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Mr Slick is spinning his wheels.
In Iowa and NH as far as I am concerned, I am for anybody but Romney.
“I’m Not Particularly Interested in Running for President”
Source and context, please.
Really ? How do you know this ?
Slick ain’t selling. Maybe Romney’s sons are not helping enough.
The more a candidate wants the job, the worse I feel about giving it to him. Power should not be given to those who desire it.
“I do not know too many Conservatives who take voting advice from the gang at the Huffington Post.”
But we can name a lot of Romney’s Rinos that won’t take voting advice from freerepublic.com, the internet’s premier conservative web site.
Sounds like Fred missed his nap. No, really I think his enthusiastic wife put Fred up to this whole President thing anyway. The man is a lazy old grump who never did much when he was a Senator. Romney has a lot more life to him and is much more presidential in manner.
I agree. One could compare and contrast to Hillary who thinks she has entitlement to it.
Fred was called upon and he rose up.
I remember the early draft fred days.
Good, hopefully this flip-flopping reject will get out of the GOP race.
Must be why Fred is around 1%.
The best thing they could do to help their old man is join the Marines.
I think I figured out what you mean. Fred doesn’t have a “burning in his bosum” like Mitt does?
Please provide the methodology of the poll you are quoting, as well as who commissioned it and what questions were asked.
Thank you for playing.
That poll is bull. I want the internals. No way Fred was at 1% and even Ron Paul being at 1% - no way. Were they even included or were they writeins so to speak. Lets see the actual poll that you tout. I saw it in Novaks column and I think it is bull.
Fred has some of the better names with infrastructure on his side in Iowa and don’t be surprised if he shocks people with a great showing in Iowa.
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