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Mitt Romney looked to strengthen his grip on the Republican presidential nomination and broaden his lead in the delegate count with a win in all three of the primary contests being held Tuesday.
The former Massachusetts governor entered today's slate of primaries in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin with hopes of winning all three — not just for the sake of delegates, but to score a critical blow to rival Rick Santorum's hopes of staying relevant in the GOP primary as well.
Steven Senne / AP
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets people during a campaign stop April 3 at a Cousins Subs fast food restaurant, in Waukesha, Wis.
A primary that has stretched on longer than many political observers had expected appears to be nearing its end. National Republican figures like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan ended their silence in the primary campaign and endorsed Romney in recent weeks, in part to hasten the end of the primary and allow Romney to pivot toward the general election.
With Romney widely expected to win in Maryland and the District; Wisconsin emerged as the true battleground among Tuesday's contests. Santorum had spent the better part of the last week courting the state's voters (though he'll spend election night in Pennsylvania), and unleashed some of his harshest criticism of Romney to date.
Although Rick Santorum has claimed the Wisconsin primary isn't "do or die," pretty much everyone else seems to disagree. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
"A moderate Massachusetts governor is not going to make that strong contrast. He'll pull out the etch-a-sketch," Santorum said Monday in Menasha, where he expressed hopes of scoring an "upset" tonight versus Romney.
It would take an upset of sorts for Santorum to beat Romney in the Badger State. The Romney campaign and a supportive super PAC outspent Santorum and the former senator's allies 4-to-1 in Wisconsin. And polling has suggested that Romney has an advantage in the state. The former Massachusetts governor led at 40 percent to Santorum's 33 percent in last week's NBC News/Marist poll.
Exuding confidence, Romney, whose campaign has shown a consistent eagerness in shifting the fight to the general election and President Obama, has refocused his stump speech away from Republican rivals and toward the incumbent president.
"You know I think all of us in the contest are focusing more and more on President Obama as we should," he said Saturday in Fitchburg, Wis. "I've got a ways to go before I get 1,144 delegates, so I'm not counting the delegates before they hatch. But I'm going to keep working very hard and hope I get a good strong send off from Wisconsin. I got a good boost from the folks in Illinois, and if I can get that boost also from Wisconsin, I think we'll be on a path that will get me the nomination well before the convention."
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney hopes to score a decisive victory in today's Wisconsin primary, while keeping an eye on the general election. NBC's Garrett Haake reports.
At stake on Tuesday was an opportunity for Romney to move closer to shedding the "presumptive" qualifier and becoming the Republican Party's presidential nominee, though that formal distinction won't be made until he wins the necessary delegates.
The Obama campaign at least appears to have identified Romney as is likely foe. They assailed Romney as a stooge for Big Oil in their second TV ad of the cycle, which will air in key swing states.
First Thoughts: Obama hits hard at GOP budget, Romney
Both Obama and Romney also delivered dueling policy addresses on Friday that were strongly tinged with general election politics, another suggestion that the general election has begun in earnest.
But as Romney's comment on Saturday suggested, there's still a ways to go until he secures the necessary delegates to win the nomination. Romney has accrued 490 total delegates through March 24, according to NBC News' count. Santorum had won 203, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was at 137 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul had won 34. A total of 92 delegates are at stake in Tuesday's three contests.
The next major set of primaries will arrive in three weeks, when five states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic hold their primaries. Those states are seen as favorable to Romney, but none are more important than the contest in Pennsylvania, Santorum's home state. If the former Pennsylvania senator were to lose there to Romney, it would almost assuredly end Santorum's longshot hopes of becoming the GOP nominee. A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found Santorum leading by 6 percent among likely Republican primary voters, 41 to 35 percent.
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Romoney can't talk to average Americans. He's so wealthy that he's totally unable to understand that when he comments about his "plight in life" (i.e., car elevators, two cadillacs, his dad firing people being funny, his washing his own shirt in a bathroom sink and Russia being our arch-enemy) that he sounds either out-of-touch or just dumb.
Anyone who thinks he understands the average American is dead wrong and he won't do anything to make our lives better when he can't even understand them.
I don't begrudge him being wealthy but there are ways to relate and ways to relate poorly - he shows the latter.
I'll take a guy who has love of country but cannot "relate" (as you say) any day over an egomaniac who continues to push his ideology on Americans, divide the people with his partisan politics and race baiting, spend our children's future, and sell us down the river to foreign nations (i.e. Russia)!
This president is a total DISASTER! November will be the end of an error!!
The only grip he wants to get firm is his grip on more money, more power, and robbing from the poor and giving to the rich! Remember he likes firing people and even his wife doesn't think they're rich. This guy and all the windbags in Washington are out of touch with America, NOW IS THE TIME TO GET THEM TO JOIN THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINES! VOTE NO INCUMBENTS, but certainly not any of these jokes of politicians that are running in the Republican Party. I would vote for the most junior member of Congress for President if I knew he/she would look out for everyone in America!!!
Romney's quote, "Corporations are people too." Well Mitt, let's see corporations bleed from taking a hit from an IED in war like our soldiers did? Did corporations die in the Iraq war Bush Lied about for more profit for the friends of Cheney? Did corporations go home from war in a body bag? Do corporations sit in Veterans hospitals all over the world? Do corporations pay the same taxes as the soldiers and vets do?
Hell no! Corporations are people too........Really?.....Really? Tell that to the families of our dead and wounded vets.
No your right, we don't need somethat has business sense. We need someone that is a smooth talker.
Your so dramatic star! Obama kept those guys in afghanstan, bombed libya, sent guns to mexican drug gangs to shoot americans and bailed out the banks so our houses are worth nothing. Yea, Romney is really gonna be bad compared to that!
What is this a relations contest?
Better an out of touch CEO who can make faltering things thrive than a Chicago Politician that spends $5 trillion in deficit spending with little to show.
Give me someone who actually knows finance and economics so we don't follow the Greeks footsteps and entitle ourselves into bankruptcy!
Trouble is, it's getting less easy to speak to the AMERICAN people because it's getting to where a lot of them can't speak the language. Get what I mean? AND, some of the ones who can, aren't intelligent enough to understand what is being said. Ignorance is taking over OUR country and that's a fact. Look around you. You have high school and college kids who can't tell you the simplist things about OUR country. I don't claim to be anywhere near the smartest person but I do know I take pride in knowing certain things about this country. I know one thing for sure, Mitt Romney can make the start to CHANGE things as Obama FAILED to do. He has no idea on what is RIGHT and I am not referring to politics when I say that. All Barry wants is to take this country down. That's why I call him, The Little Muslim PUNK. Perfect words to describe the Racist PUNK. Concerned AMERICAN, Larry Velasco
Starsailing - what a guy. Yes, corporations do not hire people. Corporations do not provideincome to individuals for work completed. Yeah, corporations do not provide benefits. Corporations do not create clothing, do not produce food, do not provide hospitals, and do not create medications. The do not create the technology you use to communicate with others. The moment you forgo anything that is created by a corporation will be the moment that you actually show you have more intelligence than a small rock.
Lets see, We can vote for a Party that sank the United States into a Recession ( Republican Party ) or we can vote for President Obama that has taken us out of the Abyss and is growing our economy without ANY help from the GOP. Sounds pretty easy
Obama/Biden 2012
There's only one thing Romney needs to strengthen his grip on. First he needs to find it.
starsailing, others,
Definition of corporation:A corporation is created (incorporated) by a group of shareholders (people) who have ownership of the corporation, represented by their holding of common stock.
Simply said - it's a group of people with defined interests in a return (or not if non-profit). So yes, a corporation is people. You limit the rights of a corporation you limit the rights of those people with their business.
Obviously a corporation is not a human being, but acts like a human in many instances and pays a good amount of taxes.
Whako,
The abyss is still swirling.
BTW, when are you and your fellow dimwhits going to put the blame where it belongs: CONGRESS!
3 years without a passed budget (yes, THEY controll the purse strings when it comes to spending), deficit spending climbing every year and no accountability for their failures.
Mitt has only donated 1000's of hours of his time being away from his family counseling with people in his Church positions without any pay for many years. There is a great article written from the LA Times that covers this subject. Mitt is very humble about his work in this capacity. If he talked about it, many would say he is just bragging. If he says nothing- many here complain that he won't talk about it. What would you do if you were in his shoes. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. How many people have their marriages intact today? How many people found employment from his efforts and counseling? How many people received help from the Church to put food on their tables or to pay a utility or medical bill? How many youth were pointed in the right direction after making some poor choices like we all did? Please remember Mitt did this type of service for over 10 years- and some here say he doesn't know how to relate to people. Give me a break ! You do that kind of service for 10 plus years and tell me it didn't effect you to really understand the human condition. There is also a spiritual counseling aspect to all of this that is on top of all the temporal counseling Mitt offered. I give the man credit for at least giving it his all. I would expect nothing other than his best in getting our Country back on the right course, while we still can.
MTBUCK, let me know when you find a corporation that does what I said a soldier does.Die and bleed. Until then corporations are not a people. Why did republicans just block taking away tax breaks from corporations overseas and corporations with their offshore accounts? Why did republicans just block giving tax breaks to American companies who bring back the jobs and tax breaks for business that keep jobs in America? Why did republicans just block taking away subsidies from big oil corporations when the ceos of the big oil companies testified they did not not need them? Why did republicans vote against giving healthcare to first care responders of 911 until John Stwert show publicized this? GREED! Even Reagan could not be a candidate for republicans in this election. So in your world ofm GOP FAUX news, MTBUCK, people are not people, only corporations are. Hmmm, how's that go? Of the people, by the people, for the people. Now you say it needs to be changed to of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.
suzq,
How do you know how a rich person is suppose to talk to you, every rich person I have ever talked to opened their mouth and spoke, just like anyone else.
Jacksonhole, you ask how many did he help...well...how many? How many of the thousands of jobs he destroyed and sent overseas were these people he counseled? How many marriages and families were destroyed as his job destroyer business raked in all the dough? He did this without out pay as a counselor? Really expect anyone to believe that, sure as hell there was a tax write off for anything he did. Mitt knows how to relate to regular people? Everytime he meets anyone, he always says he has a friend that owns this company or that business the little guy is working for or talking about. That is relating? He knows the guy who owns the business you are talking about? Well the study is out on how many jobs and lives Mitt destroyed, ask Rickypoo Sanatarium, he can tell you about his brethren!
There's a thought. Lets give the reins of government to a 1%er that knows how to disassemble and sell for parts.
Gee, wonder who he has interest in helping?
Looks to me like there is a common theme developing that needs to be addressed. Who really thinks that any president has ever really related to the common American. If you do you live in a fantasy land, for if that were the case we would be electing john the local plumber. The truth is that we need someone who can understand all of these issues and how they will effect the people of our nation. So do we want someone that has never held a real job and doesn't understand the market or legislation. We need someone with real experience. These men have to deal with complex worldwide issues that effect us all individually and on a global level. The real issues that we face are those that have arisen by the equal housing laws, NAFTA, and other programs that have been passed that have created bubbles in the housing and stock markets. These are all laws, organizations, and bills that Bill Clinton pushed through and influenced with Greenspam and his thugs. So do we want more of the same ignorant lawmakers who pass their ideology on to us, or someone that is educated and schooled in business, finance, and proven in legislation. When choosing the captain of a ship would you choose someone who understands the ship and it's components, and the ocean and it's challenges, who is proven to provide results and knows how to sail, or do you choose the bookworm who has read about sailing but has never sailed a ship and has only proven that he doesn't know what he's doing, but boy can he read from a teleprompter. Off teleprompters another story.
Momus2009
Okay you are a moron. Obama is spending trillions of dollars of other peoples money, My children and grandchildren's money. They haven't been born yet so they can't complain. In fact for every dollar he has spent, 40 cents of that dollar belongs to generations yet unborn. That is immpral that is theft. Obama make Berni Madoff look like a petty criminal
Star- yes he did this at no pay as a Church leader. How many hours,days, weeks, months have you personally put in the past 10 years at no pay to help out your fellowman or woman?
Simply wants a sailor eh, one that goes in the direction of whichever direction the wind is blowing for the moment. As long as that sailor , sails his jobs overseas and puts his money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. Dear lord we wish Mitt knew how to use a teleprompter like all the other presidents, maybe he would have the same position two days in a row!
jacksonhole76
Most of us work for a living. Romney has the time to mormonize people.
His "no pay" time is incorrect. He gets paid while he sleeps.
Where most work for money, Romney has money work for him. The man makes 2 million a year even if he farts. He makes it on vacation. He makes it while chastising presidents. He makes it whether he gets up in the morning or not.
The only reason you see any charitable contribution from Romney is for the tax deduction. Is that sinking in yet? Just like he fired his illegal immagrant workers, whatever he does its because he is running for president and needs to keep up appearances.
The only reason he can relate to poor people would be if he knew the owners of some.
At least Romney is finally taking aim at the biggest problem this country has, and that is our great social engineer who thinks he is the reincarnation of FDR. It takes a certain (large) amount of stupidity to challenge the system of checks and balances that our Founding Fathers built into the Constitution by telling SCOTUS to stay out of his side of the yard and not overturn the worst piece of social engineering since the New Deal of the 1930s.
Excuse me, but GOP and BUSH passed the BIGGEST addition to Social Engineering in the last 50 years... it's called MEDICARE PART D... and it was on our credit card... so before you start talking social engineering maybe you better look who did it!!!!!
Bob in KC, checks and balances and separation of powers are exactly why the President SHOULD remind the Supreme Court to stay out of his yard. By legislating from the bench, the justices would violate that.
Sure Bob and he will take aim at it with your Social Security, your Medicaid, and any other program that is there to help out the 1 in 2 people who are living in poverty or in the lowest economic status. You guys amaze the $hit out of me. You are so blinded by your ignorance you can't see what these piece of $hit Republican Candidates will do to this nation all in the name of standing by a political affiliation. I'm sure glad I didn't do that while I was in uniform for 21 years, you just might have been screwed then! Oh, just in case you're wondering, I'm proud independent, I look into the lies, deceit and other bs that all these politicians spew from their lying mouths and try to pick out who I feel will best serve this nation. Now, I can already tell you that all the Republican nominees are out only for themselves or don't value anything in this nation that is good enough for you or me. They have no idea what it is that 80% of this nation goes through on a day-to-day basis just to put food on the table and a roof over their head. That goes for all the pieces of $hit in Congress, I say VOTE THEM ALL OUT. But, in order to do that, we need candidates that will not screw over America the day after they hit Washington!
Hey Greg,
Voting out all incumbents means your man B.O. is out. You claim to be an independent but your rhetoric smells of something else.
Ohhhh Bob! You do know that the healthcare mandate was a republican idea from the republican think tank? You do know it was what republicans proposed back in 93 to oppose Hilary healthcare plan? You do know that McCain, Newt, Boehner all supported this right up to 2008 until Obama said let's use your plan(Romney used it)? You do know your history Bobby? ...........Now you do!
fielden
The SCOTUS striking down an unconstitutional law is not legislaling from the bench. It is what they are supposed to do. Judges ordering legislatures to craft laws to suit them is legslating from the bench. Liberal Judges do that. IE same sex marriage....school funding laws ordered written by liberal judges. Your ignorance is apalling, you must be the product of a lieral arts education.
The SCOTUS upholding a constitutional law is not legislaling from the bench either.
Please show me one law voted on by Congress that these liberal judges wrote.
I can't find any gay marraige law nor school funding law written by any judge, let alone a liberal one.
Then, you become appalled at someone's ignorance, which turns out to be more informed than yours.
You must be a paid shill spewing propaganda to suit your politics.
This man is a cold-hearted and greedy Republican and he can not relate to working-class and poor people also he will not help us he will help himself and the very rich. He will say and do anything to get elected and start another war so the rich can get richer. Rich people kids do not go to war working-class and poor people kids go to war.U can not trust the GOP.
How do you know he is cold-hearted and greedy? Do you know him personally?
L Lee: To say that Romney is not cold hearted and greedy is like saying a bear will not go to the bathroom in the woods or don't kill other things to eat and feed himself.
That's why the GOP is against a woman's right to choose, they need more soldiers.
thank you !!!thank you !!!thank you !!!
Bob go ahead and vote for Romney and u will be very very sorry. I bet u voted for Bush and Cheney and they started a war and let Wall Street RAPE this country.
And I bet you voted for Obama, the first president to fire a high ranking government employee for finding one of his friends breaking the law.
16 Tons of Smart: Starting two wars for nothing and then not paying for them because you were afraid of saddom is breaking the law when coated with lies.
Bob, What is wrong with people having access to Affordable healthcare? I mean really this is just the basics of life, access to healthcare.
The President has a right to his opinion, and to question SCOTUS, we all do, especially after the Citizen United decision. Corporations are people too? Social engineering? LOL
Romney the Liberal er Moderate er servilely Conservative, has nothing to offer but cut tax's and deregulation's. Been there, done that, been trickled on enough!
Obama/Biden 2012
you are right ppl do have the right to affordable health care, but that power resides with the states not the federal government. States have police powers which means they protect the residents health, safety, morals and their welfare. This power was granted to the states b/c the representatives of the state are usually much more connected to their constituency and are more likely to listen since they are directly elected by the ppl of the state. In other words this is a much more efficient power granted to the state since the ppl knows best of what they want than the federal gov. President Obama on the other hand should not have the power to impose a health mandate on all the ppl.
Prez/VP 2012 unsure...
hummbird, nothing is wrong with affordable health care; however, the insurance is not even close to being affordable.
Hummbird-
Oh my!!!! Something fell on your keyboard and you can't seem to get it off!!!!
Mitt Romney WILL be the nominee, there's no point in Rick Santorum doing this, he's only going to make things worse, and I don't know about you, but I don't want someone who has played 90 games of golf in his first two and a half years of his presidency to win reelection.
@16 -
And your problem is the President playing 90 games of golf in 862 days. I'll put that up against Bush being on vacation months his 8 years! http://factcheck.org/2010/01/president-obamas-vacation-days/
Totaly agree with you!
16 Tons of Smarts: I really don't think that President Obama cares about your vote or what you think. And Bush jr was to busy getting drunk to play golf.
And,.. in an effort to connect with the 99%, willard is building a new ocean front mansion in CA.
Complete with a car elevator.. willard thought that would be a nice touch...
Yes indeed,.. willard feels you pain...
Romney: Cmon guys like me already!!!
USA: Nope
I think Americans, should never forget !!
When the going got tough, willard.... ummm.... well, actually, willard went to France. While thousands of his countrymen were headed to Vietnam..
Willard - Fighting for America !!!!
Don't be a DB. Romney was, in fact, volunteering his time and money while in France. Just because you don't think much of it doesn't really mean anything.
k1200RS - nobody could figure out where Bush was during the war he was supposely a piolet.
Deb
They knew where he was - the time in question was when he went to help his dad with his campaign - certain people seem to like to omit that.
My dog could beat Obama. So, it really doesn't matter who the Republican nominee is because our current President, after 3 years, still doesn't have a clue how to run a country. The media will continue to deflect criticism of Obama but in the end, the people know better. Liberal tactics of marginalizing, demonizing and class warfare may work in third world countries but not here. We are far worse off today than when Mr. "Hope and Change" took office.
My dog could beat your dog! And I don't even have a dog. Or a cat either.
Are you seriously this far removed from reality?? Really?
Romney will most likely win the nomination. But,.. There is a significant number of republican voters who don't like the guy... He's struggled against Santorum in some key areas of the country.. Santorum... one of the weakest candidates the republicans have put out there in a while.
In a general election, Romeny will struggle not to get blown out....
@K12: If gambling were legal on here, I'd gladly challenge you to back your statement with money. The Downgrade President, Fundraiser in Chief, will not win re-election in November.
Not to worry my friend, republicans will vote for him over Obama any day. If they don't, they are not republicans. (Anybody But Obama.) Moreover, his weakness with some conservatives in the primary is to his advantage in the general with moderates and independents. Time for real hope and change in November.
Nevada-Brett: Sounds like you have your head buried in sarah palins underwear?
If that "weak candidate" had the money Romney has - you'd be saying Romney who.
Romney is actually the weaker candidate. He cannot connect with people like Obama.
Yeah sure, he is going to win simply because he isn't Obama...
If you bothered to come up for air once in a while, you would see that the vast majority of Americans actually like Obama and simply putting a hairpiece out there with NO ideas, NO leadership, NO solid background (well one to be proud of anyway), NO compassion, NO originality, NO relatability is not going to give you a win. You will be lucky if he ends up getting 20% of the overall vote, he can't even get the hardcore right wing nutjobs like you who dislike Obama to show up and vote, much less the general public who simply wants jobs and a house and view Mitt closer to a hostile CEO than a viable leader of the country.
If you look closely you can see Grover's hand up Romney's backside...
But then again the right wing are essentially children so why not enjoy a poor quality puppet show?
I applaud Matt for bringing her on. This is just reminding folks of how crazy the republicans have gotten. This is nothing like the republican party of years gone by. The far right crazies have taken over the once grand ole party and turn it into a joke a minute party. Just look at Palin. There are many former republican that will be voting for President Obama because all the lies, flip-floping and just out right crazy ideas that the republican party now wastes time and money on. They voted against their own ideas. The American people can see that the republican do not care about the middle class only the rich. Trickle down economics has failed.
Now say what you want but there is a race problem when it come to President Obama. The level of disrespect shown to him so far is truly amazing. And coming up with lame excuses as to not admit this is about the color of his skin is just so funny.
Never has the American people so disrespected their President like what is going on now. And yes this is about race. Because there is no other reason. The birther issue is a joke and everyone with half a brain knows that if he was not an American citizen, none of the republican leaders or democratic leaders would have allow him to be sworn in. Having to show his college transcripts, birth certificate, school records are just lame excuses. President Obama has proven all he needs to prove to the leaders in washingtion from both parties. If you do not believe the speaker of the house and the other republican leaders that have said he is the president then that only proves nothing will convince you of the truth. Believe the lies if that makes you feel like you are not a racist. All of you racist have been looking for other lame excuse to challenge him so you don't have to look yourselves in the face and admit you are a racist.
And as a final thought, there are more voters out here that believe in "Anybody but the Republican Clowns" than there are anybody but Obama. The republican party is no more. It should call itself the crazy party because of all the crazy mouthpieces they have.
Dear Santa,... Please bring Doug a pet.
Thanks,
KRS
If you look at the candidates in ways they inspire people...Mitt is it.
You're kidding,.. right??
Good one...
Mitt could rally both parties to vote for him...Obama...he had buses going around Pittsburgh registering people to vote...for him..
I saw the T-shirts myself....they were Blaze Orange and Safety Yellow...with the text..."It's Our Turn"...bite that.
Where are the enlightening posts from FEISTY DEADHEAD, oh I know she is still upset that Sarah Palin got on NBC and she didn't, it kind of shows how important you are huh FEISTY!!!
Outspending his nearest rival by 50 to 1. Can you say buying the nomination any louder?
What did you think Obama did. 1 Billion plus all the Labor help from the Unions and Acorn. Not to mention all the support of Obama's wife's Black Panther Friends
Mitt will be anyone you want him to be. Right now on social issues he is almost a Santorum clone, a Mormon sounding like a Catholic zealot. Tomorrow, who knows. Today he likes the Ryan economic plan that favors the richest and raises taxes on the middle class and poor. Tomorrow, who knows. In Massachusetts he was a moderate, today he is a ultra conservative. Tomorrow, who knows?
Do we really need someone like that to represent the United States all over the world?
Gov Scot Walker Where Are You? This is the face of the GOP Today sadly ,if you support them better pensions,higher salaries just ask the police and fire unions next time teachers and correction officers unions support the GOP and Walker and you will get all you want and more ,and lets not forget massive tax breaks for the wealthy and who pays GOP ? The Middle Class! GOP why are you against the wealthy paying at least the same taxes as the average middle class person why should they be tax free because of their wealth?
About the only demographic the GOP hasn't manage to drive out of their party is old, over weight, white haired, southern white guys and most of them don't like Romney all that well. It's going to be interesting to see how Mr. Flip-flop is going to walk back all the statements he made during the primaries and now appeal to the rest of the population. President Obama is now leading by anywhere from 3 to 11 points in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Pennsylvania. He's leading nationwide among women by more than 19 points and among Hispanics by more than 35 points.
If things don't turn around for the GOP -- if they don't expand their appeal to a wider segment of the population, they may go the way of the Whig Party of the 19th century.
And the Democrats are the best thing since sliced bread?
We're not perfect, but they're crazy! Obama 2012
It will be an interesting race. The Man Romney against the Liar Obama.
? interesting race ,First Herman the sly playboy then Perry the forgetful one Bachmann turner overdrive Romney the changing one like the weather Rick 18Th century and on an on we go where the it stops no one knows ,Landslide victory for President Obama check with me in November.The GOP must change the middle class is listed as over 80 percent of America yet the GOP will not raise Taxes on the Wealthy Americans to at least the rate of the average middle class Americans ,lets see what happens to the GOP after Election Day!
Dudley Doright or Pepe LaPew ... some choice.
Isn't that kind of like being the biggest Brazil Nut in the can?
I will be glad when this is done and we finally find out who is going to give the president a second term.
Rumny just needs to "get a grip" plain and simple. What a ding-dong!!!