“What I saw was Jeb Bush signaling that he’s going to run on the Romney strategy. He intends to run and win the primary on liberal numbers. Unfortunately the result will be the same as Romney.”
i agree, but i also think Hillarious would beat Bush by even a larger margin than BHO beat romney.
Romney ran his primary in the liberal leaning suburbs with little interest in more rural areas. Here in Michigan that strategy won Romney 26 of 83 counties and a tie according to our system (Romney and Santorum won 7 congressional districts each)
It doesn’t matter what our personal opinion of Santorum is, he still ran a far more conservative strategy of not ignoring the base. The pattern was repeated all across the country. Romney concentrated on moderate to liberal suburbs while Santorum won the rest of the state.
Rush Limbaugh nailed it when he said that Romney is winning primaries in places he couldn’t win a general election in. Its better to win a primary with your base and try to pick off those more moderate to liberal areas in the general election.