Romney’s Low-Key Iowa Strategy Faces Test
- Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:11pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The accelerating GOP presidential campaigns in Iowa probably will define front-runner Mitt Romney’s chief challengers over the next six weeks and could force the former Massachusetts governor to reconsider his decision to mount only modest efforts in this early voting state.
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s quick rise in popularity in the leadoff caucus state and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s stubbornly low poll numbers after more than a year of groundwork in Iowa give Romney new opportunities in the state where he has worked to lower expectations in his second campaign.
Romney may stick with his plan to tread lightly in Iowa and look to New Hampshire’s leadoff primary for a liftoff in 2012 if there is no opening for him to seize as a consensus choice.
But Romney’s healthy fundraising, with as much as $20 million in the three-month reporting period that ended last week, and his lead in national polls give him flexibility his less-known rivals lack and make it possible for him to wait to see how the chips fall in Iowa this summer, and decide later whether to up his ante.
“I think it‘s awfully hard for me at this stage to predict where we’ll spend all our time and devote all our resources,” Romney told The Associated Press this past week. “But we’re focused on running our race, where we think best.”
Minnesota’s Bachmann was on her first sustained Iowa campaign trip this weekend. She’s coming off a successful stretch marked by a well-received national debate debut, a widely covered campaign kickoff in her native Iowa and a strong showing in The Des Moines Register’s poll. Bachmann nearly matched Romney, the No. 2 GOP caucus finisher four years ago, for the early Iowa lead in the survey.
Criticized for having little caucus campaign heft on her team, Bachmann has named as her deputy national campaign manager David Polyansky, who’s credited with bringing organizational and strategic weight to the 2008 campaign of caucus winner Mike Huckabee.
Bachmann has feet in Christian conservative and tea party camps, and will need to quickly organize within these groups. Polyansky, who helped Huckabee form relationships with Christian home-school advocates in Iowa, for instance, can help behind the scenes. Bachmann’s schedule had her headlining a tea party rally in Des Moines on Saturday.
But caucus support is more often sealed in person than in crowds at a rally or along a July Fourth parade route. Bachmann will have to meet privately with influential GOP activists, as she plans to begin this weekend. She’s also staffing a phone bank to drum up support for the Aug. 13 straw poll. “We can’t make enough personal appearances in 40 days to make that happen,” said Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman, Kent Sorenson.
Businessman Herman Cain, a tea party favorite, also will need strong support from this motivated but untested segment of the GOP electorate. Cain, third in the new Iowa poll, was the only other candidate in double digits, with 10 percent. But his campaign organization has suffered some key staffing departures in Iowa.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has a foothold among social conservatives. He’s looking for a straw-poll breakthrough with help from a top aide to Romney’s 2008 campaign.
For Pawlenty, the task in Iowa is the opposite of Bachmann’s. He will spend 15 days in the state this month trying to show that the organization he has built there can generate enthusiasm.
Pawlenty has the largest Iowa campaign staff, has spent more than two dozen days in the state since November 2009 and is airing the campaign’s first television ads. He has a list of recognizable Republican supporters, from former statewide officeholders to up-and-coming figures. Yet he was the choice of only 6 percent in the Register’s poll.
After saying in January he needed to “win or do very well” in the caucuses, he recently has tried to lower expectations for the straw poll, despite hiring the consultant who helped Romney win the 2007 straw poll.
“As to the straw poll, I don’t know that we need to win it,” Pawlenty told a conservative radio host in Des Moines this past week. “I think we need to do well and show some progress.”
The pressure is on Pawlenty to assemble those pieces of the broad GOP coalition he has long said he can deliver, including social and business conservatives.
“Tim Pawlenty is coming up on a pretty serious EKG test in Iowa,” said Robert Haus, who ran the 2008 Iowa caucus campaign for former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee. “Is he going to ultimately materialize into the big challenger to Romney or not?”
Pawlenty’s lack of early momentum could open the door for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who could attract support from Iowans looking for a pro-business governor besides Romney. Perry, who’s also popular with social conservatives, is considering a White House run and plans a national day of prayer in Houston for Aug. 6, a week before the straw poll.
A top Perry adviser, Dave Carney, has made inquiries in Iowa about the timing and rules of the straw poll and caucuses, while Perry has raised his profile with key appearances and private meetings with influential Republicans.
Perry will claim the space in Iowa for a pro-business governor if Romney does not, said Doug Gross, a top Iowa backer of Romney’s 2008 campaign who tried to coax Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels into running.
“Unless Romney gets in and campaigns here, he will only go down, leaving an opportunity for a Perry,” Gross said.
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ccr
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:35pmDon’t worry……….Huckabee’s buddies from the last time that stirred up the Mormon issue……….and with the continuing help of The Blaze………….Michele will do well in Iowa. If the voters in Iowa are more interested in JOBS/ECONOMY than a candidate’s religion (and thereby showing RESPECT for the Constitution), perhaps Mitt will do well.
What I‘d love to see in Michele’s character (as well as anyone else) is a total pushback on ANY groups that would apply ANY KIND of religious test for POTUS. THAT would be a character trait I would be interested in seeing.
Report Post »BlazingChance
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:01pmTo say the very least, I find it extremely disturbing that “The Blaze” has yet again, left out Ron Paul in another article. Last time I checked, “The Blaze” was created by Glenn Beck. He claims to stand for the constitution and relentlessly states that we should defend it against the progressives/establishment. Yet, “The Blaze” is still attempting to sell us “candidates” like Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann, both of which are anything but champions of the constitution. The ONLY candidate that has shown time and time again all throughout the years that he stands firmly with the constitution is Ron Paul. I will no longer support “The Blaze,” nor will I continue to support Glenn Beck. All of my subscriptions have been canceled. I’m going to stand firmly with the constitution and support/defend Ron Paul.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:26pmWell said Blazingchance. I’m too am amazed at the way Glenn so passionately preaches the Constitution and the Founding Fathers and sound money etc. etc. (I think Glenn even considers himself Libertarian) and yet the ONLY candidate who matches up with those issues perfectly is Ron Paul and Glenn refuses to endorse him. I don’t know why. I think it must be because Ron paul rightly believes we should have a foreign policy of non-intervention and no entangling alliances (just like the Founding Fathers) and that includes Israel. Glenn seems to believe that if the US is not in the middle east, that Israel would be annihilated by the arab countries. I believe that Israel has the strongest military in the entire middle east by far and can defend herself and that the US presence in the middle east only causes problems. I think in truth we are only there to protect “our” oil interests.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:51pm@Cous1933 and BlazingChance
Come to think of it, that‘s the sort of pattern that I’m starting to pick up. It seems that every single day I see articles featuring Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry…And yet, the Blaze posted no article featuring Ron Paul. As much as I adimire Glenn Beck, I have to question if he really is libertarian as he claims himself to be.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:15pmi am glad the blaze covers ALL the conservative candidates in the race with equal interest…..
……..oh wait no they don’t!!!!!…..
Cain is a interesting speaker and better than obama, but he is far from being the man with the best constitutionalists record..
but don’t wait for the blaze to tell you about who that is, or expose you to his “dangerous to the establishment” ideas
NO RINOS NO NEOCONS 2012
Report Post »EASTCOASTPATRIOT
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:00pmNo to Romney! He is a Republican Obama Mimic for the Next Election Year
Report Post »trueblueday
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:14pmIf true, he attended at least one Bilderberger function. When asked point blank (as seen on you-tube) he says, I don’t know who they are. Something doesn’t feel right with this guy. I’m staying clear.
What’s that old saying about doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results? Just say no to Romney.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:03pmOnly Ron Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »If a Republican party nominee RINO we are done. Good be America, land of the free and home of the brave.
The Toad
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:00pmThe video the Liberals and GOP elites don’t want you to see of the next president! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-G2n91wKtY&feature=channel_page
Report Post »The Toad
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:57pmI might vote for Cain or Palin if she gets in but as a teaparty member I can’t vote for Bachmann! Michele Bachmann is a million dollar welfare queen. This woman is a player and you can spot them a mile away. She knows how to play the game after all she’s been in the halls of congress for 5 years. Bachmann doesn’t like taxes, but she worked as an attorney for the IRS.,She doesn‘t like government entitlements yet her husband’s clinic has recieved hundreds of thousands from Medicare. What a hypocrite! She and her husband have been gaming government programs from foster child care, to grants, to Medicaid. Not only is the Medicaid an annual, ongoing source of income for them, she lied about the grant. She said the grant was for employees not the clinic, but with further investigation it’s been learned that the clinic was given these funds with no knowledge of how the money was spent. A family farm in Wisconsin, in which Bachmann is a partner, got nearly $260,000 in federal subsidies. She also knows how to get the sympothy vote by talking about her miscarriage she had 20 years ago in which some people say adds to her resume for President. This woman has never passed any legislation of any meaning. She has been called undisciplined, unorganized, and inept by those who have worked for her in the past years. She was also photographed hiding in bushes at a gay rally and said she was held against her will in a bathroom by a couple lesbian women. Bachmann changed her story about
Report Post »sambachico
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:27pmWhere the h*ll is Ron Paul in this article? He is pushing double-digits in polling. He just raised another 4.5 million. Give me a friggin break! If you can‘t see the media bias even inside the supposed ’libertarian-conservative’ circles and tea party circles, heres your sign! Those of you who have already sided against Paul realize that you are being manipulated by the media with false arguments. Do some more research for yourself, our country needs the man who is closer to a Reagan than any real candidate, who was a friend of Reagan, who was even endorsed by Reagan in 1978 for congress. Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan both believed in Barry Goldwater conservatism-libertarianism. “Libertarianism is the Heart and Soul of Conservatism” – Ronald Reagan
Goldwater – > Reagan – > Paul
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:31pmAbsolutely right Sambachico!
Report Post »I would only add one more to that list, Thomas Jefferson. Compare Ron Paul to Jefferson and I think you will see Dr. Pauls inspiration. In 2012 we have an opportunity to re-elect Thomas Jefferson. How great is that?
JeffersonPaul
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:03pmRon Paul 2012!
Report Post »Born-Again American
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:02pmTHADDEUS MCCOTTER!! go to http://www.mccotter2012.com and JUST check out his videos. Thats the Conservative we all been waiting for.
Report Post »ccr
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:37pmhaha……not any one I would vote for!!
Even as much as the Huckster promotes him and gives him free airtime.
Report Post »JeffersonPaul
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:00pmThe Only Real Freedom fighter is Ron Paul!
Report Post »PaulEdward
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:00pmRomney has stated, time and again, how conservative he is on the issues that matters to Republican primary voters. He’s pro-life, supports the NRA, despises Obama, against Obama’s Health Care legislation, and strongly favors taxcuts to the wealthy, like the other candidates! His problem is that the GOP has a highly rigid litmus test that candidates have to adhere to!!!! Ronald Reagan and Bob Dole, along with Barry Goldwater, would never pass this ridiculous litmus test. The GOP has been shanghaied by the most extremist of people now and thats the reason Obama will be reelected!!!! Poor Poor Romney-he will never be able to convince the voters in the primaries, that he is one of them! As a strong progressive, perhaps even a Socialist, I love watching these Republican extremists running for President, continue to state some of the most outlandish crap-its going to be even more entertaining, whoever wins the GOP nomination, how they are going to explain themselves to the general electorate, the lunatic comments they made during the primary season!!!!
Report Post »AKITAMOMMY
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:59pmNo wonder the GOP cannot be united. The comments here are so divided & degrading no GOP candidate is going to be good enough. HELL just give OBAMA the next term too. OBAMA is succeeding at dividing the Republic…keep it up & we will have him again.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:59pmBarrack Oromney is my next to the last choice. One percentage point ahead of Obama.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:44pmOnce again another story that mentions all of the leading candidates except Ron Paul.
Dr. Paul has probably won more straw polls among conservatives than any other candidate (including recently Ames Iowa, Townhall, CPAC the past two years, Republican Leadership Conference, to name a few) and yet he is continually marginalized or ignored completely by neocons in the so-called conservative media (which includes Fox News and The Blaze).
The fact is that Ron Paul is the one true conservative in this race. That is if you consider conservativism to be an ideology of individual liberty, private property rights, personal responsibility, and sound money in accordance to the principles of the Founding Fathers and the strict adherence to the Constitution.
If your idea of conservatism is spreading our military empire to every corner of the planet and wiping out anyone who disagrees with you and being willing to spend any amount of (fiat) money and violating the Constitution to do it, then any one of the other candidates will do.
Report Post »Heitah
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:46pmsolid points
Report Post »SmoknHotPatriot
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:22pmCous1933
I agree! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!!! His voting record proves who he is. God bless him.
Report Post »CD FIle
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:16pmAs far as I‘m concerned If Ron Paul doesn’t get the nomination I’m not going to bother with it. I will not do the lesser of of two evils thing anymore because you still end up with evil. This country will simply get what it deserves.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:21pm@Cous1933
You’re absolutely spot-on there. As of right this moment, Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that I’m going for. Most, if not all the other candidates are simply RINOs.
Report Post »SmoknHotPatriot
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:41pmHey Scott, check this out, this might be Blaze worthy. Obama’s 6th war! Not 6 day war! 6TH! Yes 6th war in Somalia!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread723548/pg1
Amber Alert: Protesters missing since inauguration day 2009!
Report Post »The Toad
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:39pmRomneys a Rhino this should be the next president—-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-G2n91wKtY&feature=channel_page
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:35pmAs far as I am concerned, Romney is not electable. He’s a lot like Kerry. Just a showboat, and a liberal telling everyone he is a conservative.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:31pmno middle of the road this time. stay on the RIGHT shoulder only. drive straight to the white house 2012. spirit of 76.
Report Post »treshall
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:27pmYou are so right, Cat, a Republican-in-name-only is not going to help us. We need a strong candidate with strong, unabashed Conservative principles who can go up against Bam in the debates and confront him with the disaster that is his record. We need someone with balls of steel, quite frankly, and I don‘t care if it’s a man, woman or giraffe at this point, so long as it‘s someone with the toughness and tenacity that it’s going to take to get this country turned around.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:23pmEither way he’s a rino. A younger McCain. Another Bush,.
Lets get someone in there who’s really gona stir it up.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:22pmNO RINO’s … this is not the candidate we are looking for!
TEA!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:19pmRomney = R I N O!!! NO vote from Me!!
Report Post »randy
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:19pmThe accelerating GOP presidential campaigns in Iowa probably will define front-runner Mitt Romney’s chief challengers.
Who here besides me does not believe that RINO Romney is anywhere near the top of the Polls?
Report Post »Heitah
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:45pmBachman is my favorite, but Cain’s anti Muslim comments are scary.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:52amCains anti muslim remarks??? We should be anti muslim….and so should any republican candidate. America is not a home for muslims, it is a christian nation, if you dont get that take a hike.
Report Post »ofallon
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:46pmThe power of the Puppet Master.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:59pmROMNEY, AS ALL OTHER CANDIDATES, WILL BE A GREAT COMPETITOR OF OBAMA
Romney’s strengths are well know. He is the strongest in the economic realm with the most experience, not just owning a business but fixing businesses and the Olympics, best known for Dominoes, Staples, Sealy Mattresses, etc. Herman Cain is also strong on this account.
Romney has the most experience with health care as long as he is truthful about repealing ObamaCare. And according to Heritage Foundation, his plan, which the 85% liberal congress destroyed was the most market based health care plan of its time and though it had the mandate, again which the Congress put in, has been successful to 63% of the residents of Mass., which was reported by the Boston Globe.
He is also centered in good principles. He is pro-life. He didn’t sign the SBA pledge because of the consequences it would have on governing, according to the Susan B Anthony Group they were in discussions about this and they would not change the pledge to address Herman Cain and Romney’s concerns, so both of them wrote their own: http://tiny.cc/zn8dl .
His weaknesses include… continued on next post
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:11pmRomney’s weakness is miscommunications or flip-flops. The only real flip-flop is about abortion. He was pro-choice in 1994 when he ran against Sen. Kennedy for Senate. Between the run for Senator and Governor he claimed to have an experience that made him question that position. When he ran for Governor he stated that he would not vote for or against two issues abortion and gay marriage. While governor he voted against the morning after pill and funding abortions. While governor he fought against gay marriage and wrote an op-ed in the WSJ that said the marriage should only be between a man and a woman. This sounds like Mitch Daniels stance on social issues
Climate Change, Romney never said he believed in Man-Made Global Warming. If anything be mad that he gave a soft answer like all politicians, but he did not flip flop on this issue he has been giving this same answer since governor. Here are the questions that proves he never said he believes in man-made global warming:
1) Is the temperatures around the earth rising at this time. As far as we know YES. – He agreed with this.
2) Has it gotten colder and hotter in the history before, is it cyclical? YES – He agrees, he said it has been hotter.
3) Does man’s actions effect the environment? I am not asking how much, does it? YES – He agreed with this.
4) Is man the cause of Global Warming? NO – Romney did not say that it did he said it contributed and that he does not know how much.
Here’s the clip: http:/
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:13pmROMNEY ON CLIMATE CHANGE: http://tiny.cc/2g3f4
(read the response on this clip above)
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:15pmAnd don’t forget, the real opponent is Obama. Romney proves that this is the only person he is attacking: http://tiny.cc/eyk9p
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:23pmI do…I think he is going to take a thumping in the end by Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, possibly Perry if he gets into it !
Report Post »SmoknHotPatriot
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:00pmRED_WHITE_BLUE2
Sadly, I think you are right. I use to belong to the republican party based on the ideology of my Christian values, until I woke up one day & questioned who am I or any one else for that matter to govern how you or I should live our lives, both the right & left believe they have they right to tell we the people what freedoms we can & can not have. We have come together forming tea parties etc. voicing our hearts desire for freedom yet the idea of true freedom once it is voiced & put into perspective by someone like Ron Paul who has the guts to fight for it, he is brushed aside, ignored & even laughed at. Sad.
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!
Report Post »John Adams and John Hancock
cous1933
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:27pmSmoknhotpatriot,
Report Post »My story sounds a lot like yours. I’ve been voting republican since I was eighteen years old because I thought theirs was the more conservative, Christian position. After the last presidential election when I plugged my nose and voted for John McCain (I should say against Obama) I started researching Ron Paul because even though my information sources (Glenn, Rush, Hannity, etc.) said he was a nut and was un-electable, he said a lot of things that made a lot of sense. Since then I’ve read numerous books on our history, the Founding Fathers, our monetary system and Austrian Economics vs Keynesian, republican form of government, and the Constitution. I realized that there is no real difference between most Democratic and Republican politicians. They use different rhetoric, but they are all business as usual, status quo, puppets. If you want to read a real eye opener on the Federal Reserve cartel, I recommend “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin. It’s a long book but it is so fascinating (and infuriating) you will breeze through it and you will have a new understanding of the corrupt monetary system that is ruining this country. I also recommend checking out Michael Badnarick on youtube. He’s a Constitutional scholar worth listening to. By the way both of these men endorse Ron Paul for President, and for good reason.
avenger
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:31pmme too..the gop is a farce.we need new blood that has no connection to the elite power structure.both parties are totally corrupt and only power hungry.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 4:56pmRandy;
I think you may be right as regards mitt’s popularity – however the polls (remember Dewey vs. Truman) may indicate something different.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:27pmREVERE1
HEY! Do you pay The Blaze for advertising space?
‘CAUSE YA SHOULD.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 5:46pmRomey is an FN Rino. F him!
Report Post »woodruff
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:38pmI’m with you. I don’t beleive any poll that I read. I would like to see Cain take it all because he has no political ties and owes no favors to anyone.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 6:39pmYAY yet another article on an establishment candidate…
and still no mention of the only true constitutionalists in the race… he just raised more money than Huntsman and Pawlenty, i guess that isn’t news????
how many weeks is it now that he has been the candidate that is never mentioned by the blaze???
i am starting to question the journalistic integrity of GB and the blaze,
they talk a good game of “conservative values” and “truth having no agenda”,
but the shine is wearing off! and their GOP establishment agenda is showing through….
NO RINOS NO NEOCONS 2012
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 3:21pmGlenn probably doesn’t want people looking into Ron Paul because then they will find Alex Jones and realize how much Glenn Holds back about what is really going on.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:16pmmitt is part of the old problem….no more rinos or elite wannabees.
Report Post »CD FIle
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:02pmI’m with ya , simply not possible unless they are polling democrats
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 10:24pmRomney? who’s that? some dicksuit in a GOP costume?
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 10:54pmI, for one, do not believe Mitt Obamney is actually at the top of the polls. This is more media positioning, than anything.
Come on Iowa, don’t disappoint us, do NOT let the media choose our candidate.
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