Mitt Romney This Week

According to 2012.presidential-candidates.org, Mitt Romney is the favored Republican candidate. Followed by him is Newt Gingrich with 32.4%, Rick Santorum with 13.5%, and Ron Paul with 7.1%. What do all these statistics mean? Whoever wins the Republican vote within the United States becomes the Republican candidate against Obama in the official 2012 election this fall for the new president.  This past week was the Florida primary. Each state votes for their favored Republican candidate. The primaries started in January with Iowa and continue until June with New Mexico, South Dakota, and Montana.

Why is this election so important? Our country is in need of change. We are currently suffering from a bad economy, immense public debt, and a lack of confidence that we can reconstruct what is causing this crisis. 

Many people in our society seem to think Mitt Romney could be the solution to our problems, but why? He lost his race in 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidency and he has been working on his campaign ever since. Mitt Romney has pledged to make an improvement in the economy by saying, “My number one job will be to see that America is number one in job creation.” Out of all the problems our country is facing, maybe people do not see how this could be his priority nor is it a promise for successful improvement in other areas.

One article states that the reason Mitt did so well in Florida was because of the negative advertisements toward Newt Gingrich. Statistics in the area showed that more negative advertisements recently were directed toward Newt and not nearly as many were directed at Mitt. The article mentions that these tactics are also planned by Obama for his campaign against the winning Republican candidate. mitt also rides on the health care reform he started in Massachusetts called RomneyCare. This seems good but not good enough to cover the whole country. He seems like a good candidate but many people seem to believe he won’t cut it, so who will? We will have to just wait and see.