Word: romneys
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...Boston-area Mormons have had a long time to get to know Mitt Romney, and we have followed his campaign to see how the American public received a serious Mormon candidate. We share with Romney a kinship of faith. But not all of us will be voting...
...Obama best represents our attitudes about the uses of faith in politics. In contrast to Romney, who in his 2007 speech “Faith in America” sought to unite believing voters, in his own 2006 signature speech on religion and public life Senator Obama called for a coalition of progressives, both believers and secularists. Obama possesses the unique perspective as a lifelong rationalist and recent convert to speak sincerely to all Americans...
...That's why all the leading candidates - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; Republicans John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee - have campaigned through Missouri in recent days. Obama and Clinton have made multiple stops as they scrambled for the edge in a race too close to call...
...Even so, two recent polls indicate that McCain is opening a substantial lead over Mitt Romney, whose main backer in the state is the unpopular lame-duck Gov. Matt Blunt. "We're down to a McCain-Romney fight," said Selck. "And it's my opinion John McCain is going to do well. Mitt Romney is the big-shot Easterner to all us poor folks. John McCain is a hero...
...such jibes mask more substantive complaints that many of the candidates have about Romney. "What Romney has done," says a Huckabee adviser, "he's attacked people for positions he once held. That annoys people. And he uses his own money to do it, which rubs it in." He's gone after McCain on campaign finance reform (which he once supported), Huckabee on tax increases (Huckabee countered that Romney's raised "fees" amounted to the same thing), and nearly all the candidates on immigration...