Going into Thursday night’s debate in South Carolina, Mitt Romney was maintaining a consistent, if slim, lead as the GOP’s front-running presidential candidate, but now his chances of clinching the Republican nomination have shifted, according to this analysis by The New York Times.
The New York Times:
Suddenly, Mr. Romney is being challenged in a way he has not been previously in this race. His political operation remains the class of the field in terms of money and organization across the country, and he has a detailed plan for accumulating the delegates necessary to win the nomination.
But he is facing intensive attacks from all sides, renewed questions about whether he is conservative enough for the grass-roots of his party and the effects of his own stumbles, including his awkward answers to questions about his tax returns. At a minimum, he now faces the likelihood of a long fight for the nomination — something his advisers said they expected all along.
After announcing his presidential run on a pristine New Hampshire day last summer, Mr. Romney sat comfortably for months as the presumed front-runner while the Republican rivals seeking to challenge him focused on one another and left him to hold onto his cash and his lead in the polls.
Then he came here, where three tenacious competitors — Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Santorum, and Representative Ron Paul of Texas — came ready for a fight and with extra help from outside groups supporting them with commercials. His campaign has admittedly struggled to find its balance ever since.
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Mitt’s evasiveness and condescending, fake attitude towards the peasants is what
is making people realise that he deserves to be tripped up. There is no real
jealousy towards his wealth; it’s the secrecy and the manner in which he treats
those he appears to think so little of that will allow his competitors to catch up.
By Marian Griffith, January 21, 2012 at 8:58 am Link to this comment
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It is not so much a problem of his campaign that Romney is a quarter billionaire with questionable business ethics and who is entirely disjoint from the economic and social reality of the country.
That is true for all politicians
It is that he is unaware of that fact and can not fake it convincingly enough even if he understood.
Just that supercillious smile of his screams out ‘I am better than you and don’t you forget it’ to the voters.
It is telling that right now the most popular Republican ‘candidate’ is a clown who mocks conservatives by pretending to be one. Steven Colbert is as fake as all the other candidates (on either side of the isle) and he knows it. And judging by his popularity, so do the voters.
By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., January 21, 2012 at 5:29 am Link to this comment
Romney has no fucking idea who “we” are! He’s so
isolated from main stream America he has no connection
what-so-ever! Period!
He’s an effete snob who will go down; as he deserves to
do.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it!
By Noelle, January 20, 2012 at 5:43 pm Link to this comment
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For someone who thinks $375,000 per year in speaking fees isn’t much, average people disagree. He’s another out of touch billionaire living off his investments, why should we vote for him?
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By Maani, January 23, 2012 at 12:29 am Link to this comment
I have no love for any of the GOP candidates, but I daresay I would vote for Romney long before I would vote for Gingrich…
Report thisBy BrooklynDame, January 21, 2012 at 10:47 am Link to this comment
Mitt’s evasiveness and condescending, fake attitude towards the peasants is what
is making people realise that he deserves to be tripped up. There is no real
jealousy towards his wealth; it’s the secrecy and the manner in which he treats
those he appears to think so little of that will allow his competitors to catch up.
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/01/false-narrative-the-gop-
primaries/
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/01/avoiding-the-cuckoos-nest/
Report thisBy Marian Griffith, January 21, 2012 at 8:58 am Link to this comment
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It is not so much a problem of his campaign that Romney is a quarter billionaire with questionable business ethics and who is entirely disjoint from the economic and social reality of the country.
That is true for all politicians
It is that he is unaware of that fact and can not fake it convincingly enough even if he understood.
Just that supercillious smile of his screams out ‘I am better than you and don’t you forget it’ to the voters.
It is telling that right now the most popular Republican ‘candidate’ is a clown who mocks conservatives by pretending to be one. Steven Colbert is as fake as all the other candidates (on either side of the isle) and he knows it. And judging by his popularity, so do the voters.
Report thisBy THX 1133 is not in the movie..., January 21, 2012 at 5:29 am Link to this comment
Romney has no fucking idea who “we” are! He’s so
Report thisisolated from main stream America he has no connection
what-so-ever! Period!
He’s an effete snob who will go down; as he deserves to
do.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it!
By Noelle, January 20, 2012 at 5:43 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
For someone who thinks $375,000 per year in speaking fees isn’t much, average people disagree. He’s another out of touch billionaire living off his investments, why should we vote for him?
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