Word: mitt
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...optimistic about New Hampshire for 2008 after John McCain captured the party's nomination. The state has been good to the Arizona senator, who blew out Bush in the 2000 primary by 18 points, and revived his campaign by winning this year's contest by 5 points over Mitt Romney. New Hampshire voters tend to be fiscally conservative-the state is home to the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit non-profit-but fairly progressive on social issues. From that perspective, McCain seemed like a welcome change from Bush: a fiscal conservative who wouldn't focus much on abortion...
...held his last town hall before the primary there. And then he beat George W. Bush, establishing his national identity as a straight-talking reformer. Earlier this year, the state again rescued McCain's fortunes. After his campaign had imploded and gone broke, the Granite State helped McCain defeat Mitt Romney, rocketing McCain to the nomination...
Maybe Hodgman is right. Maybe Obama won't fall victim to the Urkel effect. Maybe, just as Seth Rogen has replaced Harrison Ford as a romantic-movie lead, our comic-book-loving, viral-video-sharing culture is replacing the blow-dried Mitt Romneys with the Jew-froed Al Frankens. Of course, it's also possible that while our society is ready to accept a black President, it still clings to a treasured stereotype: that all black people are cool and all nerds are white...
Kerry M. Healy ‘82, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and senior adviser to W. Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, spoke on behalf of John McCain while Steven Grossman, former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, represented Barack Obama on issues ranging from Iran to the domestic politics of Israel...
...thing I’m sure of is that Mitt Romney is not going to win on Tuesday,” Mankiw said. “Barack Obama is going to win, and I don’t think I’m going out on a limb on this...