Romney embarks on tour of 'towns that Obama forgot'
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June 16, 2012, Saturday
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US Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney took a new approach to his campaign yesterday, starting a bus trip across six key states to target undecided voters living outside America's big cities. To hear his advisers tell it, he'll be visiting the towns President Barack Obama forgot - but in states the president won four years ago.
The former Massachusetts governor will continue his focus on the struggling economy as he rolls through more than a dozen small cities and towns over five days on his "Every Town Counts" tour.
It began in New Hampshire yesterday and continues to the key Midwestern states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan.
In speech excerpts released by his campaign, Romney says the Obama administration is smothering "small-town dreams." He promises to scrap Obama's health care law, approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and go after China for its trade policies.
His aides say Romney will stop in the kinds of places that are hurting because of the bad economy.
"Some people call this the back roads of America. What he believes is that this is the backbone of America - this is where folks work really hard and are really struggling," senior adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters.
It's a new style for Romney, who kept a limited public schedule over the past two months, preferring to spend much of his time fundraising.
Both campaigns expect Romney to win the majority of voters in rural small towns, which are often reliably Republican, but Obama's team is trying to keep the margin as narrow as it was in 2008, when he lost rural voters by just 8 percentage points to John McCain.
"Romney's going to win the rurals. The question is by how much," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist who advised McCain's rural outreach.
The former Massachusetts governor will continue his focus on the struggling economy as he rolls through more than a dozen small cities and towns over five days on his "Every Town Counts" tour.
It began in New Hampshire yesterday and continues to the key Midwestern states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan.
In speech excerpts released by his campaign, Romney says the Obama administration is smothering "small-town dreams." He promises to scrap Obama's health care law, approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and go after China for its trade policies.
His aides say Romney will stop in the kinds of places that are hurting because of the bad economy.
"Some people call this the back roads of America. What he believes is that this is the backbone of America - this is where folks work really hard and are really struggling," senior adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters.
It's a new style for Romney, who kept a limited public schedule over the past two months, preferring to spend much of his time fundraising.
Both campaigns expect Romney to win the majority of voters in rural small towns, which are often reliably Republican, but Obama's team is trying to keep the margin as narrow as it was in 2008, when he lost rural voters by just 8 percentage points to John McCain.
"Romney's going to win the rurals. The question is by how much," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist who advised McCain's rural outreach.
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