Why elect romney

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Utah GOP Sens. Mia Love on Friday, Aug. Mitt Romney, and never will. Sign up for the newsletter Morning Edition Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email address required. First Name. In that sense, Napoleon would love Barack Obama. Then came the financial panic, which helped him win. Much painstaking work goes into all this and they did it far better than the Republicans. Despite a miserable economic record, the President dominated the agenda.

On Election Day millions of women were convinced that Romney and the Republican Party were hostile to them. Single women outnumber married women and they went overwhelmingly for Obama. The White House soaked the illegal immigration issue for all it was worth, portraying Republicans as taking a racially tinged approach to the issue.

The President got a higher percentage of the Latino vote than he did in The President took his grossly politicized actions on the auto industry and portrayed himself as the savior of the industry.

General Motors and Chrysler would have emerged as stronger companies long-term through normal bankruptcy proceedings. Astonishingly Republicans never effectively hit the fact that Obama pushed General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy and did so in a way that is costing taxpayers — unnecessarily — tens of billions of dollars.

The President also effectively fobbed off the economy on George Bush. Romney never fully recovered from those assaults, in no small part because his campaign made a major mistake in not responding to them in the spring and summer. While the debates undid much of the damage, they were not enough. As Ed Rollins put it this morning, Romney came across as a credible alternative to Obama but not necessarily the better alternative.

All this could have been overcome if Mitt Romney had waged an aggressive campaign of positive substance the way Ronald Reagan did when he challenged Jimmy Carter in The Governor had good ideas on tax reform and other issues but most of the time his approach suggested they were almost sideshows.

Instead Romney hammered the poor economy but as Reagan could have told him that approach alone will not do the job for a challenger. Romney also badly mishandled the immigration issue.