Romney campaign: Michigan win not necessary to get to White House

[Newsjock]

Source: Detroit News

Michigan is not a must win state for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, his campaign said Wednesday.

Despite new polls showing Romney has narrowed the gap over President Barack Obama in Michigan from double digits, Romney's deputy campaign manager Katie Packer Gage said the campaign has made no decisions to boost efforts in Michigan.

"There are some places that we really feel we have to win in order to win this election. There are many paths for us that get to the White House — they don't all go through Michigan for us," Gage told The Detroit News in an interview Wednesday. "For Barack Obama they do. So we want to make sure that he's got to fight for it and he can't just take it for granted."

... "We've got to take care of the first sort of critical states first and then look to the next round of states," Gage said. "There are other states where the race is tighter — that's where the battle is going to be fought first."

Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121010/POLITICS01/210100436/Romney-campaign-Michigan-win-not-necessary-get-White-House

[onehandle]

1. Fuck the Romney Cult Family. nt

[AlbertCat]

2. Romney campaign: Michigan win not necessary

Hmmmm...

The entire state of MI must be part of that 47% that he doesn't worry about. Everyone in MI is a freeloader, obviously.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. This tells me that he knows that he's going to lose his own fucking home state! Pathetic!!

[Cha]

5. Yeah, where all those trees were just

the right height and Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. He's going to flip flop and claim that he made a mistake: they're NOT the right height!!

[Cha]

11. mitt is so Freaking

Predictable!

[leftynyc]

15. I want him to lose all 4 of his home states

MA, MI, NH and CA. Motherfucker.

[Alekei_Firebird]

4. Geez, that should really warm the hearts of the Michigan folks

[LovingA2andMI]

10. THIS Lifelong Michigander....

Yes, it does!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Not just Michigan but the entire Rust Belt.

Including Ohio.

Michigan auto production is the economic lifeblood of the entire region.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. It makes my day ...

it makes me step back, look up, and really appreciate that the trees are, indeed, the correct height.

[wordpix]

6. "We've got to take care of the first sort of critical states first" - if Michigan's not in critical

condition, I don't know what state is. I'm thinking about DETROIT

[catbyte]

8. and he ain't gonna get us, either.

BTW, OMG Bill Clinton was HILARIOUS in Las Vegas yesterday, lol.

[LovingA2andMI]

9. Good to read because

The Great Lakes Blue isn't going to vote Romney into office anyway!!!

So proud of my state!!

[cheezmaka]

14. Me too!

Go MIchigan!

[Suji to Seoul]

13. Apparently the plan is to win as many small states as possible, get Texas and. . .hmmmm

Since I see him winning states no bigger than 16 EVs (Georgia).

Where does the White House victory come?

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. Florida, NC, Virginia, Iowa, and Ohio

He's currently leading in FL and NC. Obama is leading in VA, IA, and OH. Ohio is going to be the hardest of those states for Romney to win.

Or if he loses Ohio but wins Colorado and Nevada it will be a tie, in which case it goes to the House of Representatives. In that scenario, the Constitution provides that each state delegation in the House gets one vote

[DavidL]

17. That may be their final game plan "Hail Mary" win strategy.

Fifty votes, fifty states. There's more red states than blue states.

California's 37 million people count as much as Wyoming's half million, in that game plan.

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. Even some blue states, like PA and OH, have GOP majorities in their House delegations

[DavidL]

19. I didn't think about that!

So it would be easier for the House to vote Romney into office.

[Occulus]

26. I'd like to make known my fresh fear of this whole frighteningly plausible scenario

[DavidL]

30. I agree! It's very frightening!

A first time in American history. And a time when America has moved beyond these issues 30 years ago, women's rights, abortion rights, gay rights.

Never have the rich paid less in taxes, never have corporations escaped so much legitimate taxation, and moved so many jobs overseas.

[adigal]

24. I don't think he's going to win Nevada

Maybe Colorado, they have a lot of Wingnuts, but hasn't obama been ahed in nevada?

[demwing]

20. Romney to English Translation - OMG, WE NEED MICHIGAN!!! /nt

[llmart]

21. Note to Ann Romney.....

Sounds like poor sportsmanship to me, or rather sour grapes. Can't even win his home state.

Well, this Michigander already voted and it sure wasn't for Romney.

[yellowcanine]

22. Hmm. Romney obviously needs Michigan more than Obama does so this guy is blowing smoke.

Obama has more states in the bag and he is leading in more battleground states so how does this guy figure?

[bemildred]

25. Romney campaign: win not necessary to get to White House. nt

[The Magistrate]

27. There's Many A Truth Spoke In Jest, Sir

"Be careful out there...."

[bemildred]

29. Indeed, Sir.

I think I do that a lot actually. And certainly here. But the facts lead me to it, as you say.

I am old, there is not much they can threaten me with now, to quote Daisy Miller, "I am not afraid." Of course she wound up dead of malaria, but so do we all, one way or another.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” Eleanor Rooseveldt

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” – Terry Prachett, Carpe Jugulum

“Live! It’s a mistake not to.” -- Henry James

[underpants]

28. Math - not a strongsuit for these debt creators