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...Those gathered treated the former Massachusetts governor with respect and somewhat distracted enthusiasm. Romney marched through each event with studied conviviality. After an abbreviated stump speech, he would walk gingerly through the crowd, stopping to comment when someone was decked out in conspicuous sports gear. In Johnston, he patted the shoulder of a man in a University of Missouri jersey and asked, "Oh, are you a 'grad'? I mean, a graduate...
...When Romney attempts to communicate that he is having fun, or really experiencing any emotions at all, he lapses into awkward anachronisms: John Edwards' evocation of two Americas "just 'frosts' me." Or, recounting his reaction when his son had named his grandson after him: "I just could not have been more pleased...
...people interested in caucusing for Romney aren't necessarily thinking about fun. Romney has run an unapologetically analytical, boldly flavorless campaign. "He's been extraordinarily successful using the same approach his entire life, and that's the way he's run his campaign," says unaligned Republican pollster Whit Ayers. "You gather the data, ask the questions and make the best rational choice you possibly can." Romney is betting that Iowa voters will approach their decisions on whom to vote for in the exact same way he has approached his campaign...
...games, partygoers tick off their reasons for supporting him, it is a shopping list, not an argument: "He'll secure the border, fight terrorism and protect family values," says a woman in a fuzzy purple sweater in Ankley. In general, they do not talk about how they feel about Romney at all. There is none of the teeny-bopper swooning that erupts in Obama's wake, or the easy laughter Huckabee can summon with a drawling punchline. Instead, there are spreadsheets. "When you look at them morally," says Eric Carlson, a 401(k) manager in Des Moines who is deciding...
...negative ads and verbal barbs flying between the Huckabee and Romney campaigns do not seem to come much into play in these sedately decorated suburban homes. His supporters seem unconcerned about Romney's flip-flops; in Clive, a neighbor of the hosts says of Romney's earlier pro-choice views, "Well, that's not what he believes now." But they are just as dismissive of Romney's charge that Huckabee has a "liberal" approach to government. Huckabee "is a good man," says Carlson. "He's got his heart in the right place...