Campaign Crawlers
Romney One Leg
Mitt Romney abandons the three-legged stool for the Iowa confrontation with Mike Huckabee.
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“I might have been leaning toward Mitt before this, but I definitely wasn’t committed,” Jennifer Hovis said, as she jotted her personal information down on one such card, providing the Romney campaign the tools, should it be necessary, to wrangle her on caucus day. “Seeing him in person just solidified everything for me, though. I’ve heard the complaints and the other candidates are nice and all, but Mitt just has a wonderful spirit. I trust him.”
A few paces over a middle-aged man asked, “Is there enough to go around or should I grab a sign now?”
“We’ve got thousands of them so…” the staffer answered, trailing off as the man nodded and plunged into the fray of autograph seekers and well-wishers.
This scene represented the absolute best case scenario for Romney. The question then becomes how many undecided voters’ hearts did the former Massachusetts governor turn his way standing before those bright red poinsettias that night? And in front of how many other wavering voters can he perform this well over the next two weeks?
Time is of the essence, in other words. And what Romney probably wants most for Christmas — cue Mike Huckabee innocently wondering aloud whether Mormons celebrate Christ’s birth — is a few more holiday parties.
American Spectator Contributing Editor Shawn Macomber is writing a book on the Global Class War. His profile of Mitt Romney appeared in the March 2006 issue of TAS.
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Shawn Macomber is a contributing editor to The American Spectator.
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john| 12.7.10 @ 10:46PM
my grandma was tom monagham's secretary in the 70's at dominos in ypsilanti, mi. romney was a kid. they went big, he over levered and went bust, he kept going anyway and they went global. he sold in the late 90's i think.... maybe romney was part of the equity group? my aunt still works there. i never knew about romney at all being involved.