Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947) is a United States politician and businessman, former governor of Massachusetts and currently one of the presidential candidates from the Republican Party for the 2008 election. He is married to Ann Romney and has five children and ten grandchildren. He is a Mormon (that is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), but Christian fundamentalists raise doubts whether his church is a cult.
Romney has a $75 million budget, of which $17 million is from his own pocket. His main techniques are elaborate statewide organization, and tens of thousands of television and radio ads, supported with many personal appearances. He has been endorsed by only a few newspapers, and has been dogged by accusations that he radically changed his positions to a hard-right position (especially on immigration) from being a moderate governor, in order to attract right-wing support in the primaries. He has concentrated Iowa and on neighboring New Hampshire, which holds the first primary on January 8. For the second half of 2007 he held strong leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, so his decisive defeats upset all his plans. He lost his lead in Iowa, despite spending $7 million there, to dark horse Mike Huckabee. In New Hampshire Senator John McCain defeated him by 37%-32%. Pulling his ads from South Carolina to save money, Romney is hoping to carry the Jan. 15 primary in Michigan, the state where he was born and his father was governor.
For daily update on the polls see [1]
see 2008 United States presidential election