"As tabulated by the AP, Romney got 47.2 percent of the full presidential vote."
Mitt Romney Got … 47 Percent (ABC News)
Number of the day!
In only the second strangest Mitt Romney sighting this week, a man in Mitt Romney mask robbed a Virginia bank (via The Ticket)
Politifact calls Romney’s Jeep claim the ‘lie of the year’
Yahoo’s Rachel Rose Hartman reports:
Mitt Romney’s claim in a campaign ad that President Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China” earned PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year,” the site announced on Wednesday.
“The Jeep ad was brazenly false,” Angie Drobnic Holan wrote in her analysis.
The Romney campaign ran the ad in the final weeks of the campaign, drawing sharp rebukes from the automakers and public condemnation from the Obama campaign.
Romney first claimed Jeep was moving to China in a late October campaign speech in Ohio, citing “reports,” which he later identified in his ad as a story by Bloomberg News.
But Chrysler immediately rejected the claim, saying the company was reviewing adding production in China, not moving production out of the United States. Chrysler also noted that the Bloomberg story was misinterpreted.
If you have ever wondered what face Mitt Romney would make upon seeing a guy get knocked out cold, look no further.
Over the weekend, the former Republican presidential hopeful turned celebrity blog star and his wife, Ann, randomly showed up in Las Vegas to sit ringside at the Manny Pacquiao/Juan Manuel Marquez fight, where Marquez knocked at Pacquiao cold in the sixth round. The above photo is the exact moment when the knockout occurred.
As Dylan Stableford writes, Romney visited Pacquiao in his dressing room ahead of the fight and offered an introduction fitting to a guy long criticized for being a little awkward.”Hi, Manny,” the ex-candidate said. “I’m Mitt Romney. I ran for president. I lost.”
Mitt Romney takes the stage at famed Denver music venue Red Rocks. According to our reporter, he “did not arrive on stage with the flash and showmanship of Bono.”
Immigration stakeholders on both the right and left say they have yet to see “Moderate Mitt” appear on this particular issue. In fact, Romney’s immigration policies are regarded as some of the most conservative of the last half-dozen presidential cycles.
“If you’re someone who favors robust enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, Romney is the best presidential candidate that you’ve had in decades,” Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies told Yahoo News. (The center is a conservative think tank that advocates for reduced legal immigration and an end to illegal immigration.) “I would say that he has generally not etch-a-sketched [on the issue],” Camarota added.
"What Romney needs to be is a salesman, but he seems to be behaving like a consultant instead of really selling himself to the American people, and you can’t win a campaign that way."
a Republican strategist who is close to the Romney team, but declined to be named to avoid being frozen out for complaining to the press
Mitt Romney’s hands-on leadership style: Micromanager or ‘chief decider’?
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio—With less than a month to go before Election Day, Mitt Romney faces a choice between whipping up the support of his conservative base or appealing to swing voters who could be persuaded to back his bid for the presidency.
In recent days, Romney has chosen to focus on the latter, pushing a more centrist message on the campaign trail. His latest turn came Tuesday when he told the editorial board of the Des Moines Register that he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion.
“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” Romney told the Register.
