In the last week, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been travelling around the West Coast, make notable campaigning efforts in states such as Nevada and California. He has also faced criticisms from numerous sources in the recent days, and has been asking efforts to dispel any negative light that these statements might cast onto his image. In Iowa, On November 15th, the state Republican Party had planned a GOP debate for December 4th but then announced that "candidate scheduling conflicts" had caused the debate to be cancelled. Romney was the candidate who declined to participate and made the debate virtually useless.Because of this,he has aroused the ire of many Iowa Republicans and sparked verbal volleys from the Democratic National Committee leader, Damien LaVera.
In Southern California, where Romney arrived on November 14th, he has been cultivating votes by emphasizing his policies on tax-cuts and illegal immigration. Romney denigrated rival Guiliani's policies on immigration, and Guiliani assailed Romney with his own remarks, noting that Romney "probably has the worst record on illegal immigration." Also currently in California is John McCain, who was accused of being connected with telephone calls made by a company called Western Wats that have been occuring in the past weeks. These calls, ostensibly "polling calls",criticize Romney and favor John McCain. The calls mostly criticize Romney on the basis of his religion, and in response,Romney has stated "I have seen over the last several weeks more and more reports of e-mails, of literature being passed out and now push polls which attack me on the basis of religion, and I think that's very disappointing and un-American." On a related note, Romney was featured on the front page of the New York Times on Thursday, November 15th, in an article about the impact of his Mormon missionary work on his life entitled 'Romney, Searching and Earnest, Set His Path in the 60s'
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The many criticisms Romney has suffered this past weeks, as well as his cancellation of the Republican debate in Iowa are causing Romney to loose Republican support. For example, November 16th Romney was tied for 2nd place nationally with Republican Presidential hopefuls Thompson and the “dark horse candidate” Huckabee. However, Romney is also gaining an increasing amount of support, in such states as Iowa. Here, Romney has (of now) surpassed Giuliani in the polls. If Romney maintains his position as the front-runner in Iowa and wins other states, such as New Hampshire, his campaign to be the Republican candidate for president (as well as the President of the US) will be greatly helped.
A great review of Romney's status. Why not put in a link to the New York Times article? Also, well done in mentioning the "push-polling" accusation. Perhaps what's more surprising is not that this type of thing is going on, but that it took this long to get going in this campaign! How will the candidates react? We'll certainly be watching.
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