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December 8th, 2011
Philip Rucker
Romney's strategy
Many republicans feel that since the start of the 2008 campaign, they haven't gotten a chance to know Romney. Sure, they can see his family and his policies and ideas, but they say he's too polished, too perfect and too cool. Romney's response was to send a "less polished and imperfect perfect" politician in the GOP to talk to the people in Iowa who feel this way. He sent Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to talk to roughly 100 Iowa Republicans. Christie's main message was to vote for someone who wouldn't "embarrass America" and Romney will make sure he doesn't. He talked about a day in mid-October when Romney came and visited Christie and his family at their New Jersey home. Romney spent equal time talking to everyone including Christie's 4 kids and his wife. Christie was pleased with this and claimed many politicians are fake or fake too many things but this was truly genuine. He traveled to New Hampshire and endorsed Romney. There was briefe talk of Christie becoming Romney's running mate until protesters interrupted him, chanting "Put people first", "Make Wall Street pay, and "Mitt Romney and Chris Christie are part of the one percent". After the protesters were removed, Christie continued by saying the root of the protester's anger was that they heard the same message of hope and change three years ago.
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