If Romney is the GOP Nominee.....

[BlueDemKev]

...would this automatically make Massachusetts a battleground state? As stretched thin as we are needing to win virtually every battleground state there is, having to add Mass. to the battleground list is going to SUCK.

[OHdem10]

1. Not really, Romney was not from Massachussets.

[zbdent]

2. remember a number of years ago, when the media was (allegedly) so "liberal" ...

the hullabaloo which entailed when "public school is good for the average citizen's kids" Bill and Hillary Clinton decided not to cause a security nightmare for a DC public school, and enrolled Chelsea into a private school (used by a bunch of Republican politicians, too ...)? Lots of cries of "hypocrisy" about how they didn't feel like a public school was good enough for their kid ...

Mitt Romney's dad was against the war in Vietnam (I know, I know, the strange relationship Repugs have with the Vietnam war ... it was the Dems' fault ... but "we love the veterans!" - unless they vote/run Democratic), and he was all for the Iraq occupation, but didn't bother to send his sons, if he was so for it ... where was the cries of hypocrisy from the "liberally-biased media" for Romney?

[Motown_Johnny]

3. I'm more worried about Michigan. Some older people here still remember his father

and confuse the two.



I doubt MA will go red in 2012, but Michigan has traditionally been a swing state that had begun to trend blue, Romney might effect that trend.

[Divine Discontent]

4. I agree MI will be tighter if he is their nominee, but I think OH & other states will be effected by

his being a Mormon, and I really hope he's their nominee if it's not Palin, because the country church folks aren't going to like he's Mormon. And if Palin gets it, she's won it in a narrow fight, and she's not electable. She's not as charming as B*sh was, and she's much better known (a negative in her case) than B*sh was in 2000.

[BlueDemKev]

5. The candidate who concerns me the most is.....

....Tim Pawlenty. There's a good chance either he or Romney will get the GOP nomination. Pawlenty is a clean-cut, smooth talker who can appeal to both the tea-baggers AND independent voters. Even though he hasn't drawn much media attention yet, that may be a huge plus for him because he's been able to stay clean while other candidates like Gingrich, Palin, and Trump have gotten some serious mud on their uniforms.

[blue_onyx]

6. Not worried

I don't get why people think Romney is strong in MI. Older people are the only ones who remember his father and they tend to voted Republican anyway. Romney left the state after high school decades ago. I doubt many people are going to vote for someone because he was born in the same state. Plus, Romney only got 39% in the 2008 primary. Yes he won but that means 61% of people in his own party's primary picked someone else. Not great for a state where he's supposedly strong.