Word: mitt
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...Mitt Romney's vow to deliver a speech on Thursday about faith and politics will probably end up being general in nature, as much about our faith as his. Romney, a Mormon, decided to give the address around the time he fell behind Mike Huckabee in Iowa, where an outsize proportion of the state's Republicans are evangelical Christians and in some cases take a dim view of Mormonism...
...Huckabee has raised just $2.3 million in total, and had $650,000 cash on hand as of Sept. 30, but he is surging in Iowa polls. In the latest Rasmussen poll he even overtook by a couple of percentage points Iowa front-runner Mitt Romney - who by comparison has raised $62.8 million so far this cycle and had $9.2 million cash on hand as of Sept...
Raise your hand if you knew that Mitt Romney's given name was actually Willard Milton. Anyone? Both names honor men close to Romney's father, former Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Mitt--short for Milton--comes from a cousin who played quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925 to '29. And Willard is derived from the elder Romney's close friend and fellow Mormon J. Willard Marriott, who founded the eponymous hotel chain...
...news cycle is going to bring," she says. "It always keeps you on your toes." Surrounded by other staffers, volunteers and orders from Chipotle, Grosso tunes in to radio with one ear and TV with the other. A stray story or quote might provide fodder for an attack on Mitt Romney, with whom Giuliani has publicly tussled recently...
...party's two front-runners - former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney - have begun the kind of day-to-day and hour-to-hour negative campaigning that could well decide who wins the nomination. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has surged up in the polls, especially in Iowa, turning a four-man race into an even broader contest. Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has unveiled several big policy proposals, while sliding in some polls. Texas Congressman Ron Paul has become a true force in terms of online fund-raising, and has begun to spend...