Romney, NH, and ‘08
Some anti-Mitt Romney outfit calling itself eyeon08.com has included me in a list of “MSM” members down on Romney for flip-flopping on abortion and marriage. Not so. I haven’t made up my mind about Romney yet. Nor do I have to. It’s a long way to the primary. Heck, I haven’t even interviewed him yet. But I do like his hair.
Ari Richter has some discussion of the Romney interview and some NRO comments about Romney and how his candidacy might affect the NH primary. I completely disagree with John Podhoretz’s analysis that McCain and Giuliani might sit out NH because Romney’s a local favorite. NH is up for grabs, Romney or no. McCain is committed here; he’s already invested a great deal of time and money courting NH voters and activists. He’s not going to blow off the state. Giuliani? I doubt it. I think NRO’s excellent new political reporter, Jonathan Martin, was right in concluding that “no candidate is going to make the politically risky move of even being perceived as blowing off one of the first three” primary states.
Martin also beat me to a great point about the NH primary, which is that if Obama runs he could pull a big percentage of independent voters, taking them away from Giuliani or McCain. Of course, Giuliani could do the same.
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[…] Update: Drew Cline from the Union Leader corrects me. He says: Some anti-Mitt Romney outfit calling itself eyeon08.com has included me in a list of “MSM” members down on Romney for flip-flopping on abortion and marriage. Not so. I haven’t made up my mind about Romney yet. Nor do I have to. It’s a long way to the primary. Heck, I haven’t even interviewed him yet. But I do like his hair. […]
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