Romney banks on ground organization
By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
AMES, Iowa -- Doug Gross, the chairman of Mitt Romney’s campaign in Iowa, said today it is focusing on turning out its supporters Thursday night, placing 22,000 phone calls just on Tuesday in an attempt to make sure the more than 50,000 Romney supporters they have identified show up.
"This is all about a ground game," Gross told reporters. "And the bottom line is whoever does the best job at turning out is going to win this thing. And we think we have the best organization… We’ve been working the last year, year and a half, on organization, and we’re very pleased about the way it’s being executed."
Gross said Huckabee is relying more on preexisting networks of home-schoolers and churches to get his supporters to the caucuses. He also expressed serious concern that the latest Des Moines Register poll said about 50 percent of caucus goers will be evangelical Christians. He said Huckabee is likely to capture support from 70 to 80 percent of that group.
"If 50 percent of the turnout is evangelical Christians, it would be very difficult for us to finish first in that kind of situation," Gross said. "In that instance, I’d feel very good about a nice, strong second-place finish."
Romney has the same values as Huckabee, but with a strong record of success which Huckabee does not have.
Please support the most competent candidate for the republican nomination by voting for Mitt.
Huckabee doesn't have a strong record of success? He dramatically improved roads in Arkansas, passed a marriage amendment in Arkansas, banned partial-birth abortions, signed into law an informed consent abortion law, passed what has been called one of the first and largest "broad-based" tax cuts in Arkansas history, and reformed the educational system, dramatically improving test scores in Arkansas schools, all as a Republican governor with a 90% legislature. He was named one of TIME Magazine's "5 Best Governors," and "Public Official of the Year" for 2005 by another magazine. That isn't a strong record of success? : ) Romney has solid executive experience too, but we're supporting Huckabee in the MI primary. God bless America!
One question I ask of both Democrats and Republicans is who their most devisive candidates are...? Who tends to polarize people against each other? Who demonizes those who are in disagreement?
And after asking that, I also ask: Do you want this country to remained polarized and at war with itself...? Some candidates are just better skilled at working with those with whom they disagree. And some wear blinders and would rather lose a mile of ground than listen to an opposing viewpoint and give the guy an inch. So....
Hillary is a polarizer. Our present deep rifts will broaden and deepen.... Obama is not polarizing, even if you don't agree with him. Edwards, well. More so than Obama, but less than Hillary.
Huckabee is the polarizer on the right. Non-religious persons loathe him and he has built his campaign on religious bigotry, deeply insulting nearly every type of non-evangelical out there. McCain's a rude hothead, but I don't think he'll
polarize the nation. Romney can work with everyone and creates synergistic solutions. RonPaul is a really decent human being. Fred Thompson is not polarizing either. It's not likely that half the nation would deeply hate him from day one....
Whoever gets the nomination will have the job of pulling the country together. Let it be someone who has not irreparably burned most of his bridges.
One question I ask of both Democrats and Republicans is who their most devisive candidates are...? Who tends to polarize people against each other? Who demonizes those who are in disagreement?
And after asking that, I also ask: Do you want this country to remained polarized and at war with itself...? Some candidates are just better skilled at working with those with whom they disagree. And some wear blinders and would rather lose a mile of ground than listen to an opposing viewpoint and give the guy an inch. So....
Hillary is a polarizer. Our present deep rifts will broaden and deepen.... Obama is not polarizing, even if you don't agree with him. Edwards, well. More so than Obama, but less than Hillary.
Huckabee is the polarizer on the right. Non-religious persons loathe him and he has built his campaign on religious bigotry, deeply insulting nearly every type of non-evangelical out there. McCain's a rude hothead, but I don't think he'll
polarize the nation. Romney can work with everyone and creates synergistic solutions. RonPaul is a really decent human being. Fred Thompson is not polarizing either. It's not likely that half the nation would deeply hate him from day one....
Whoever gets the nomination will have the job of pulling the country together. Let it be someone who has not irreparably burned most of his bridges.
One question I ask of both Democrats and Republicans is who their most devisive candidates are...? Who tends to polarize people against each other? Who demonizes those who are in disagreement?
And after asking that, I also ask: Do you want this country to remained polarized and at war with itself...? Some candidates are just better skilled at working with those with whom they disagree. And some wear blinders and would rather lose a mile of ground than listen to an opposing viewpoint and give the guy an inch. So....
Hillary is a polarizer. Our present deep rifts will broaden and deepen.... Obama is not polarizing, even if you don't agree with him. Edwards, well. More so than Obama, but less than Hillary.
Huckabee is the polarizer on the right. Non-religious persons loathe him and he has built his campaign on religious bigotry, deeply insulting nearly every type of non-evangelical out there. McCain's a rude hothead, but I don't think he'll
polarize the nation. Romney can work with everyone and creates synergistic solutions. RonPaul is a really decent human being. Fred Thompson is not polarizing either. It's not likely that half the nation would deeply hate him from day one....
Whoever gets the nomination will have the job of pulling the country together. Let it be someone who has not irreparably burned most of his bridges.
One question I ask of both Democrats and Republicans is who their most devisive candidates are...? Who tends to polarize people against each other? Who demonizes those who are in disagreement?
And after asking that, I also ask: Do you want this country to remained polarized and at war with itself...? Some candidates are just better skilled at working with those with whom they disagree. And some wear blinders and would rather lose a mile of ground than listen to an opposing viewpoint and give the guy an inch. So....
Hillary is a polarizer. Our present deep rifts will broaden and deepen.... Obama is not polarizing, even if you don't agree with him. Edwards, well. More so than Obama, but less than Hillary.
Huckabee is the polarizer on the right. Non-religious persons loathe him and he has built his campaign on religious bigotry, deeply insulting nearly every type of non-evangelical out there. McCain's a rude hothead, but I don't think he'll
polarize the nation. Romney can work with everyone and creates synergistic solutions. RonPaul is a really decent human being. Fred Thompson is not polarizing either. It's not likely that half the nation would deeply hate him from day one....
Whoever gets the nomination will have the job of pulling the country together. Let it be someone who has not irreparably burned most of his bridges.
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