Word: michigan
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McCain has none of that going for him. The economy is not his thing. Traveling across Michigan in the days before the primary, McCain realized he had to talk about the looming recession?but he used it, more often than not, as a transition to the things he really cared about?cutting government spending and global warming. If the government weren't spending "$233 million on a bridge to nowhere in Alaska," he would say, the money could be used for retraining programs for displaced workers. If the government decided to limit carbon emissions and reduce our dependence on foreign...
...lost jobs were gone forever, and Michiganders needed to think harder about worker retraining. McCain - who had joked in New Hampshire that "the issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book" - seemed to have little feel for Michigan's pain or the forces that were driving...
Until he pulled into his home state of Michigan, Willard Mitt Romney was the Frankenstein monster of the 2008 Republican sweepstakes. The former Massachusetts governor at times seemed less like a real person than a strange, inauthentic collection of market research, body parts and DNA that had been borrowed from past G.O.P. campaigns and assembled in a lab by the party's mad scientists. Romney had the overpowering optimism of Ronald Reagan, the family values of Dan Quayle, the hair and handsome looks of Jack Kemp and the manners of George H.W. Bush. On paper, each piece of the Romney...
...Given that choice, Michigan primary voters, who picked McCain over Bush in 2000, abandoned their hero in droves. The result was a decisive victory for Romney, who took 39% of the vote to McCain's 30%. (Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won 16%.) "Tonight," Romney declared in Southfield on election night, "marks a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism...
...Romney 3.0 What happened in Michigan may be a signal of how the presidential race unfolds in the months to come, first as each party picks its nominee and then as the two winners square off in November. The pocketbook is back in a big way on the presidential campaign trail, rocketing past the Iraq war to the top of voter concerns. "For every candidate in either party, this is the supermarket-checkout moment: Do you get it? Do you understand what people are going through?" says Bruce Reed, who ran the policy shop for Bill Clinton...