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Interesting read. The article is dead-on about McCain's gloom and doom approach falling flat.
I think people like Mitt’s hardworking ethic also. Sure, he’s a rich man, but everyone knows rich people had to work hard to get there. The business of America is business.
Soooo, disapearing media is wondering houcom people vvvvoted???
mabeee Mitt is better looking than Macaniac?
...and at last, the “he connects with people” thing that the media loves to say elludes Romney. He’s the nominee, it’s only a matter of time.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
It's quite simple actually.
McCain is too liberal and too old. Senator, thank you for your service. Now go play golf somewhere.
Rudy...Well, Rudy is from New York. The same state that made a carpetbagger a US senator. Bye Rudy.
Despite his conservative values, Thompson looks like a pervert standing next to his daughter wife. Senator, you want to live the Hollywood lifestyle, more power to you. Just keep it out of the White House.
Huckabee...He should have done better. Shame on his staff.
Ron Paul...Oh I don't know..is it because he's CRAZY.
Mitt isn't perfect but he's the best we've got. That's how he score so much success
They know he means business.
Answer, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Romney has a lot of energy. He’s without a question the most energetic of the candidates, Huckabee being the second most energetic.
i live in macomb....my wife and i voted fred, but my son went for romney....
Last night after listening to an interview of Romney on NPR, I decided that I am going to vote for Romney.
He listens. He is articulate. He is specific. He knows his stuff. He does not come across as combative or defensive.
He gets it. He made the NPR reporter appear amateur. Best interview of a Repub by NPR in a very long time.
It stands to reason that Romney, who was governor of Massachusetts, one of the most Catholic states in the Union, would do well among Catholic voters elsewhere. While Catholicism and Mormonism are quite different theologically, both religions are in minority positions in the nation overall, as are the Eastern Orthodox and the Jews. Heavily Catholic states like Massachusetts and Connecticut have elected men like Michael Dukakis (Greek Orthodox) and Joe Lieberman (Jewish) to high statewide office. OTOH, Huckabee appears to be successful in conservative Protestant areas of the country that are culturally different from his own Anglo-Southern evangelical heritage.
On a side note, Ron Paul did carry one Iowa county, Jefferson, noted for a large number of Transcendental Meditation practitioners living in Fairfield and Vedic City, and the presence of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield.
I think the voters just were trying to find a candidate they thought they could get behind and win. Granted, the slate of candidates for both Democrats and Republicans are not spectacular.
A lot of people in Michigan have a great deal of respect for Ronna Romney, Mitt’s ex sister in law, who had a radio show until a few years ago. That may add to the name recognition factor.
The EPIC-MRA pollster said that Romney benefited in Macomb County from seniors who see him as the next-generation Romney, Catholics who were turned off by Huckabee's Southern Baptist sentimentalities, and conservative male voters who turned out in large numbers. "Romney had it going all the way around," he said. "He got the seniors because of his dad. He got the angry white males who are pro-Bush. And he got those voters who are anti-immigration, anti-tax, anti-everything." In a county that made its mark two decades ago as the home of the Reagan Democrats, some Republicans are quick to note that Reagan put us on the map, but he wasn't a guy from the neighborhood.
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Interesting read. The article is dead-on about McCain's gloom and doom approach falling flat.
It really warms my heart I am from Macomb County!:)
more than half of Romney's 80,000-vote margin on Tuesday over McCain statewide was accumulated in just two counties - Macomb and his home turf of Oakland County. In Macomb County - a supposedly blue-collar, ethnic, working-class community - voters embraced a candidate who grew up as an Oakland County rich kid and went on to become a spectacularly wealthy venture capitalist.Gosh, it's almost as if blue-collar working-class ethnic voters would ordinarily prefer someone who advocates redistribution from those who work to those who do not work.