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CONCORD, N.H. -- With polls showing Newt Gingrich surging ahead as the first candidate to be within 20 points of Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, Romney is kicking his campaign in the Granite State into high gear, as he hopes to close the deal a month out from the primary.
The former Massachusetts governor's campaign is blanketing the state's 10 counties with its first endorsement-focused mailer. According to the campaign, Sen. Kelly Ayotte -- who recently endorsed Romney -- and her husband will be featured prominently on one side of the all the literature. On the flip side, Romney will appear in a photograph with a Republican leader from each respective county, including sheriffs, state representatives and executive councilors. The postcard is expected to land in mailboxes this week. (Here's the mailer.)
Romney worked with hundreds of volunteers and knock on doors last Saturday in Manchester. The campaign said the volunteers also made thousands of phone calls as part of an effort that Romney hopes will demonstrate he is not taking his support for granted this cycle.
"Our campaign has spent months recruiting and building a strong grassroots organization," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams. "In the final weeks, we intend to activate our grassroots network in order to ensure Gov. Romney wins the primary. Our grassroots is second to none in New Hampshire."
On Sunday, Romney returns to the Granite State to take questions from New Hampshire voters in a town hall-style meeting at the Hudson VFW as part of conservative activist Jennifer Horn's final event in the "We the People Freedom Forum" candidate series.
The mailer and town hall come in the midst of Romney's on-air blitz, featuring a new ad, "Leader," airing across the state.
Meanwhile, other presidential campaigns are also doubling down in the final stretch to the Jan. 10 primary. Jon Huntsman will participate in a town-hall meeting in Milford Thursday evening. Gingrich returns to New Hampshire on Monday for a town hall and Lincoln-Douglas style debate with Huntsman, along with an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph.
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Rule #1 of Game: Never...ever...leave a copy of your Power Point Presentation behind. The purpose of a good presentation is to leave a pleasant, fuzzy, warm feeling of confidence in the presenter, using facts that show a mastery of the subject, but facts which by themselves are inconsequential.
P.S. However good you become at this...Newt will do it better.
What are you talking about? What Power Point? Are you talking about the power point from the last election where Republicans urged followers to use fear mongering?
Romney spent $100,000 of our taxpayer money to conceal digital records:
"Then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spent almost $100,000 in taxpayer funds to replace computers when he left office "as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret," Reuters reports. As ThinkProgress has previously noted, Romney led an obfuscation campaign that state officials described as "unheard of."
Staffers deleted emails, purchased official hard drives, and otherwise obliterating digital records of Romney's time in office.
As the presidential candidate himself explained, these efforts were designed to prevent "the opposition research team" from accessing what should be public records.
Now, according to Reuters, Romney used state funds to carry out this political activity:
"the opposition research team" in this instance is liberal Mass. Governor Deval Patrick, an Obama poodle.
See...not only did they not want to leave Power Point Presentations behind, they wanted to take the computers they were run on...hmmm...might have had something to do with e-mails as well...ya think?
The words Newt and surging are again being used. The old boy must be using his Viagra again.
What, another article about the GOP/TP Barnum & Bailey show, and which clown is it now?
Good point, TruePatriot. Are there any clowns left at this point?
Sen. Kelly Ayotte - Another idiot who rode in on the tide of the 2010 election. NH is going to suffer from her foolishness for years to come.
Pick an honorable candidate, at least..
Mitt or Ron Paul over Blingrich
Mitt isn't that honorable, he will say anything to get elected.
Paul, however, is honorable. I think he is at least half crazy, but he is honorable.
I don't think Ron Paul is very honorable.
He keeps talking about returning the government to the people. But what he forgets to tell you is that the people are the rich 1%. He complains about the rich corporations and then turns around and gives them tax cuts that give the rich corporations more money and more power.
He even voted to not end the special tax cuts for the oil industry. Yep once more he gave more money and more power to those he claims to be against.
For the people he voted to not raise the minimum wage once again for the benefit of the rich corporations.
Interesting that his never raising taxes again benefits the rich the very most, while for the working poor he wants to get rid of social security as we know it now.
No I don't think their is much honor in Ron Paul land.
On a sad note, I just read that Col. Sherman T. Potter, commander of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Korea, aka Harry Morgan, has died at the age of 96.
Romney could play a President on TV, but only a very clueless one.
From the way he portrays a clueless Presidential candidate, it would appear that he'd be casted for that role unless Cain comes back from the dead.
Harry Morgan- also AKA Bill Gannon on Dragnet, wasn't he? "I tell ya Joe, ya gotta get yourself a wife" "I tell ya Joe, ya gotta try some of this- it's delicious..". " I tell ya Joe, ya gotta....."
BullPucky!
Thanks for the info Amy,
Harry had a great run, on MASH and with Jack Webb on Dragnet (Youngsters, Google it!) He was a class act and will be missed.
Huntsman has good qualifications.................
The rest are an insult to anyone who happens to be conservative, intelligent and ethical, in my opinion.
He lost my respect when he caved to the anti-science crowd about climate change.
Huntsman lost me when he endorsed the little TP weasel Ryan's budget plan to abolish social security and dismantle the safety net! I thought he was smarter than that!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
I agree. The election process brings out the worst in candidates. I still contend that he has the best qualifications without the glaring liabilities. I disagree with what I view as far right economic policy they are all espousing, so I will brobably vote Democrat this time. I try not to vote to the right of Eisenhower on most issues.
Hey, Mitt (or whatever your REAL first name is this week), Why don't you run some full-page ads in the papers out there that feature that picture of you and your buds with all that money sticking out of your pockets. You ARE proud of that side of yourself, aren't you??
You know- money good. Lots of money, better. Lots of money earned by killing jobs the best!
Romney ain't a closer.
He's a hoser.
I think it is telling when your own party does not want you. Who knows what Romney really thinks. Romney went from vowing to protect a woman's right to choose to going so far to the radical right with his supporting the person-hood amendment that the republicans could not even get it passed in a very, very conservative Mississippi. A law that would make a miscarriage a murder investigation.
Don't you just know that the independents are ready to overturn Roe v Wade for the pretend Christians? You know the ones that pretend to care for life and then purport to take away food stamps when a third of our country lives in poverty brought to us by the republicans.
Tax cuts during war time to drive up the deficit was not an accident.
"Romulian Romney" likes to foreclosures on homes, he wants to economically close all economic doors on 99% of economically struggling Americans. The "Romulian" will never close the door on his very rich Wall Street Banker/Investment friends. He will open the door of financial deregulation to new levels of greed. "Romulian Romney" will never close the doors on the Koch Brothers, Corporation Lobbyists, and "Goofy Grover." "Romulian Romney" will never close the door on "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell." To close any sale?? The "Romulian" has sold his soul, ethics, and intelligence to the highest bidder. That is fact!