Posted on 01/14/2012 9:54:48 PM PST by Steelfish
Mitt Romney's Rivals Don't Have Time On Their Side The front-runner has spent years and plenty of money firmly setting his national infrastructure in place. If a serious challenger emerges, that candidate would have to build a national campaign operation on the fly.
By Michael Finnegan January 14, 2012
Five Republicans are fighting mightily to deny Mitt Romney a quick coronation as the party's presidential nominee. But if one of them emerges as his top challenger, a monumental task lies ahead: building a national campaign operation on the fly.
For Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or any other successful insurgent, the state-by-state scramble for delegates would require quick hiring of staffers scattered across the country — first and foremost in Florida, where Romney could essentially lock up the nomination in the Jan. 31 primary.
Offices must be rented, cellphones purchased. Endorsements must be lined up and scores of surrogates deployed. A deluge of media inquiries will gush in not just from the national media, but also from far-flung local news outlets, many of them in strategically vital regions that cannot be ignored.
Simultaneous challenges abound: new TV ads to be produced and tested with focus groups, polls to be taken, brochures to be printed, and databases to be culled to target voters susceptible to persuasion through phone calls and mail.
Seasoned advance staff must navigate the candidate through multiple events a day in diverse and unfamiliar towns. Trivial missteps can escalate instantly into YouTube nightmares.
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I agree with you 100%.
25 sounds more like it. I remember reading somewhere that 75% of all murders in California are committed by illegal aliens.
Got a one line e-mail from her - "I'm voting for Newt." She did not speak to the atmosphere down there; but, I'm thinking within her extended family down there - there's ten votes for Newt in the Upstate.
Great news...must be a sign...If Newt wins and wins big this could be a game changer....
I got a feeling it may be a good sign. All the polls I see say the gap is narrowing daily.
Just heard npr repeat that silly AP story about Newt being late for a campaign stop.
Contrary to some folks’ “conventional wisdom” Southerners are not stupid and they will resist being stampeded to the putative front runner.
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