Word: iowa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...second thought, nope. This guy is, literally, unbelievable and completely at odds with the Romney festering on television screens and in mailings throughout Iowa and New Hampshire. That Romney is nonstop negative, and jingo-crazed about the perils of illegal immigration. He offers exclamations, not balm: John McCain wants to make 'em citizens! Mike Huckabee gave them college scholarships! And McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts! And Huckabee pardoned all these criminals when he was Governor of Arkansas, while Romney pardoned not a single one of his Massachusetts felons...
...There are limits in politics. You can get away with changing a position -perhaps Romney really did see the light on abortion, not just the results of an Iowa focus group - but you can't just reinvent yourself out of whole cloth. You can go negative on your opponents, but it's a stretch to attack them for taking the same positions - on immigration, most notably - that you used to take, especially when you keep getting caught having illegals tend your garden. The sheer cynicism is driving Romney's Republican opponents nuts. He is wildly unpopular among his peers...
...United Rubber Worker's East Des Moines office. For about 30 seconds before speaking he simply stood, head back, smiling, relishing the cheers and chants of "Go Johnny, go" from the more than 100 steel workers who planned on spending the remaining few days leading up to the Iowa caucuses working the phone lines to convince as many Iowans as they can to support the former North Carolina Senator...
...final days before the caucus were similarly planned for maximum media exposure - single events in eastern and western Iowa media markets, a party with Chuck Norris in Des Moines, and a Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...
...much. Huckabee's campaign, though leading in several polls, is mostly strings and sealing wax behind the scenes - a small group of dedicated volunteers who are no match for Romney's massive corporate organization of Scantron call lists. While Romney boasts a boardroom of senior strategists, Huckabee's Iowa campaign director, Eric Woolson, was charged with waking up at 7 a.m. Tuesday to deliver Krispy Kreme donuts to nervous reporters waiting to board the prop planes...