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"Candidate enthusiasm is a key antecedent of electoral success. Whichever nominee generates the most excitement among its base typically has an easier time getting their supporters to the polls and ultimately securing more votes"
Also OWS people who are mainly democrats are more motivated.
2)Tea Parties Can't Stand Him
"To this point, though, the Tea Party movement has wanted nothing to do with Romney"
3) Low Income Men Can't Relate to Him
"Romney has done poorly among low income, white men. In the Iowa caucuses, he received less than 15 percent of their support."
4) Independents Don't Support Him
"Despite all his success in the nomination campaign, Romney has been unable to attract much support from independents."
All this is recipe for an Obama re-election and now that the economy is starting to improve, it makes things even more difficult for Romney.
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(1) Republicans don't love any single candidate. If they did, that person would win the majority of the vote.
(2) In principle, the Tea Party should be anti-everyone in the race right now. All of them are either establishment (although how Mitt is the 'establishment' candidate is something I don't quite understand, and just because the media says so, doesn't make it a fact). I have said from Day 1 that the Tea Party should have their own party and stop trying to hang onto Republicans.
(3) In NH Mitt Romney won over the lower income group, as well as the higher income group. Secondly, many in the 'lower income group' also are in the 'young' group, which means that more likely support Ron Paul. If the argument is then that lower income voters are important, then the Republicans would be embracing Ron Paul.
(4) That is (almost) entirely false. In poll after poll against Obama, Romney attracts many independent voters. In fact, that is his main reason for statistically tying or beating Obama in the General Election polls.
The comparison is not valid. McCain is actually a man of character and principles (however misguided). Madame Flip-Flop Mitt is not worthy to be a bead of sweat rolling down between John McCain's wrinkly buttcheecks.
Motivation to get rid of a president isn't enough. You can't win elections voting against someone (Obama being the case) You win elections voting for someone. The democrats found that out in 2004. Democrats weren't enthusiastic about John Kerry, They were focused on beating Bush. No body is falling head over heals for Romney and he has some issues that will come back to haunt him. He can't attack Obama on health care when he put an identical plan in place in Massachusetts. Also Romney didn't get much support at all from independents in Iowa.
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