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Originally Posted by KDAngel
Actually I don't think that it does so much. Most people on the boards know I freelance entertainment reviews, but I write political commentary more than anything. So it's a pretty unbiased assessment, mixed with some political regurgitation popular among the most trusted pundits.
Romney did in fact turn off a lot of people starting in NH. Yes, he had a following, but too many people were catching wind of how he really was a flip-flopper. There was just an innate shallowness to him, that I think started to become so prevalent amongst the political community that he knew he would hurt his image, and thus career by staying in. That and statistically he had to win like 70% of the remaining primaries to get the delegates... I digress.
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Obviously, he wasn't popular enough by any standard, but what are you relying on to make the judgment that it was distaste for Romney rather than people's sense that McCain had established himself or that he was the more pragmatic choice?
This may strike you as odd, but I don't necessarily assume that what commonly read pundits and those who write political commentary say necessarily corresponds with reality more than my own experience or that it would necessarily be unbiased. You made kind of a weird appeal to authority there. What other evidence do you have?
I considered Romney the least noxious of the Republican candidates who were still in the race by the time I got to vote in Georgia, but I was never much of a fan with a whole lot of love to lose.
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