MSNBC
Team Romney is shaking up its Etch-a-sketch and hitting the road. Mitt Romney plans to launch a five-day bus tour through six key swing states on Friday. The trip begins at Scamman Farm in Stratham, New Hampshire, where he formally announced his candidacy — and served chili with his wife, Ann, in case you're interested — more than a year ago.
Since securing the Republican presidential nomination, Romney has spent the lion's share of his time at donor functions, and giving formal speeches deriding President Obama for paying "little attention to the everyday concerns of the American people." The bus tour marks Romney's first concerted effort to campaign through multiple battleground states at a time.
The tour promotes Romney’s new campaign message: "Every town counts." And after a weekend of criticizing Obama for his so-called "the private sector is doing fine" gaffe, the Romney campaign is trying to capitalize on what it feels is growing momentum for its candidate.
It's an excuse to get a bus with your name on it, anyway, though it seems to be short the requisite giant Constitution. No word on whether there will be chilli aboard the Mitt Romney express.
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Here's some other ...let's say "tackier" .... thoughts:
Romney's [verbal] Natural Gas Tour
Romney Promise Tour: Greasing Your Way to the Bottom
Romney: Proving the Power of Money and Bull$h!t
Hey 99%, Get Under our Wheels! Let's ROLL!
Romney: Golden Rule Reversal Tour
The Republican Conscience-Free Express
I think Romney's Bus should be named The "Weeble Wobble" after the 70's toy, to reflect his ever-changing viewpoints.
I think Romney's bus should be named the "Weeble Wobble" after the 70's toy. It reflects his ever changing viewpoint on the issues...remember; "Weebles Wobble, But They Don't Fall Down!"
Presidential elections don't have to be this way.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps. There would no longer be a handful of 'battleground' states where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in more than 3/4ths of the states that now are just 'spectators' and ignored after the primaries.
When the bill is enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes– enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538), all the electoral votes from the enacting states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.
The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for President. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in closely divided Battleground states: CO – 68%, FL – 78%, IA 75%, MI – 73%, MO – 70%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM– 76%, NC – 74%, OH – 70%, PA – 78%, VA – 74%, and WI – 71%; in Small states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE – 75%, ID – 77%, ME – 77%, MT – 72%, NE 74%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM – 76%, OK – 81%, RI – 74%, SD – 71%, UT – 70%, VT – 75%, WV – 81%, and WY – 69%; in Southern and Border states: AR – 80%,, KY- 80%, MS – 77%, MO – 70%, NC – 74%, OK – 81%, SC – 71%, TN – 83%, VA – 74%, and WV – 81%; and in other states polled: AZ – 67%, CA – 70%, CT – 74%, MA – 73%, MN – 75%, NY – 79%, OR – 76%, and WA – 77%. Americans believe that the candidate who receives the most votes should win.
The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers in 21 states. The bill has been enacted by 9 jurisdictions possessing 132 electoral votes - 49% of the 270 necessary to go into effect.
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The Magical Mitt-Story Tour
Etch-a-Sketch for Mitt-Witts
The Mitt-Belief Tour
I can't imagine the mind of the person who would knowingly vote for a man who has the oft-repeated philosophy of "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." What is he - 10 years old or simply one-dimensional? Doesn't that approach to life bother the voters? Scares the bejeebers out of me!
They ought to name that bus "the only time he's ever been on a" bus.
Romney Bus Tour Slogan... "All Bus -- No Wheels!"
Elliot Baron
Chapel Hill, NC
Romney ... Follow me to a better Amercia
On the road to a better Amercia
the bus name should be his,Romney =R-money$$$$$$
the bus name should be his,Romney=R-MONEY$$$$$$$$
I had left this at your other twitter site. but anyways this was it. "The Mitt-slickster Romney Etch^O^Sketch Bus"
I had left this at your other twitter site. but anyways this was it. "The Mitt-slickster Romney Etch-a-Sketch bus"
I hear Sarah Palin has a bus for sale, cheap. Already comes decorated with the U.S. Constitution. Mitt surely noticed it in New Hampshire when he was upstaged by it.