DeMint Likely to Back Romney
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 17th, 2011 4:39 am by HL
DeMint Likely to Back Romney
Mitt Romney is the favorite to receive Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) much-sought-after endorsement in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Roll Call reports.
“DeMint, who endorsed the former Massachusetts governor in 2008, made clear in an interview late last week that he has made no decisions on whom he will support in the 2012 primary. But Republican operatives familiar with the DeMint-Romney relationship and privy to the conservative Senator’s private assessment of the GOP field believe Romney is the most likely candidate to receive the backing of the tea party favorite.”
Obama Kicks Off Bus Tour in North Carolina
President Obama will kick off a three-day bus tour today in North Carolina to urge passage of individual pieces of the American Jobs Act after it failed to pass the Senate last week, reports the Raleigh News and Observer.
Meanwhile, Politico provides a political guide for the trip, noting that “the trip’s itinerary suggests nothing so much as his 2012 game plan plotted onto a map of the Upper South and with the American Jobs Act, which polls well among all but the most conservative voters, as a selling point.”
Said pollster Mileah Kromer, “First he needs to make sure black voters, who are the core here, are as motivated as they were last time. Second, he needs to reach out to working-class whites, who he’s totally lost. Third, he’s got to generate some kind of enthusiasm among liberals…who are his volunteer and donor base.”