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		<title>Knepper of race42008.com: &#8220;During the week that Romney dropped out of the race, his favorability rating, according to Gallup, was -12!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] &#8220;Let me be the bearer of good news: no, Mitt Romney is still not acceptable,&#8221; writes Alex Knepper in a race42008.com blog burst titled The Case Against a Romney Vice-Presidency Allow me to deconstruct the ridiculous fallacies that would lead one to support a Romney vice-presidential nomination [...] Please read and enjoy Knepper&#8217;s arguments, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=687&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the maddeningly inarticulate kevin madden&#8212;late of the dire and disastrous Romney campaign&#8212;to work for Glover Park Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] &#8220;Glover Park Group, founded by and stocked with some of Washington’s best-known Democrats, is suddenly going bipartisan despite the possibility of a Republican wipeout in November,&#8221; writes Mike Allen of politico.com in a story titled Democratic firm adding Republicans&#8212;not terribly bright, nominal Republicans, anyway. The strategy firm announced Wednesday that it is hiring Kevin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=686&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>now dispersed former Team Romney hacks and hirelings can&#8217;t let it go</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ABC News blog burst titled Romney Camp Laments, John Berman Reports: The remnants of the Romney campaign are shaking their heads this morning. For months they were whispering about a New York Times investigation into John McCain&#8217;s ties to a certain lobbyist. They would poke and prod reporters to see if they had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=685&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Globe Staff: Romney put in at least $42.3 million of his own money, a big chunk of the $97 million he spent on the campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;WASHINGTON (AP) — A campaign fundraising report shows Republican presidential dropout Mitt Romney lent himself $7 million last month. That means Romney spent more than $42 million of his personal fortune on his failed campaign,&#8221; writes Jim Kuhnhenn in an Associated Press transmission titled Romney Lent His Campaign $7M in January The former venture capitalist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=684&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Ellis: [Romney] &#8220;was terribly served by his campaign staff and advisors&#8212;I would argue that they win the worst campaign team of 2008&#8212;Good riddance to them&#8212;They had everything they needed to make a good run and they made a complete hash of it&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bottom line: the Romney campaign made their bed with the early state primary strategy and got short-sheeted,&#8221; writes Justin Hart in a race42008.com blog burst titled, strangely, Autopsy of a Great GREAT Campaign The momentum that Huckabee gained through his stunning Iowa win together with the victory that McCain edged out in New Hampshire seriously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=683&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>first as tragedy, then as farce: &#8220;Turns out that after the applause died, Romney huddled with &#8216;some 50 stalwarts of the political right&#8217; to discuss making the former Massachussetts governor &#8216;the face of conservatism, as Ronald Reagan became en route to his 1980 election win,&#8217; the Washington Times reported this weekend&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] &#8220;Last week, immediately after Mitt Romney pulled out of the Republican presidential race, we noted that his CPAC address sounded less like a concession speech and more like a bid to become the voice of the culture wing of the GOP,&#8221; writes The Political Insider for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a blog burst [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=682&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>we still don&#8217;t know &#8220;who is willard milton romney&#8221;&#8212;perhaps we never will</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] &#8220;When Romney tried to present himself as the most conservative of conservative candidates — remember when he said, playing on Paul Wellstone’s old line, that he represented “the Republican wing of the Republican party”? — a lot of conservatives in Iowa and South Carolina and beyond didn’t quite know what to think,&#8221; writes Byron [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=681&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City Star: &#8220;A question for Romney: Whatever happened to simply congratulating the rival who beat you in a hard-fought primary battle?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It would have been better for the nation if Mitt Romney had said he just wanted to spend more time with his family,&#8221; write the editors of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an article titled A graceless Mitt Romney shows the nation how not to bow out of a race, reproduced in the Salt Lake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=680&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weisman: &#8220;Vogel estimates that Romney finished his race having spent $309,439 per delegate&#8212;By contrast, the campaigns of John McCain and Mike Huckabee, have been more efficient in their spending. Huckabee spent roughly $49, 649 per delegate; McCain&#8217;s spent $57,566&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With Mitt Romney officially out of the race, it&#8217;s time for Republican strategist Alex Vogel to weigh in with his final Gramm-o-meter for the former Massachusetts governor,&#8221; writes Jonathan Weisman in Wapo blog burst for the The Trail titled Romney and the Gramm-o-meter [...] Romney&#8217;s Super Tuesday finishes put his spending ratio well below Gramm&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=679&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruffini: the failure of the Romney campign &#8220;challenges us to think differently about the movement, to junk the leader/follower model for a networked model that elevates real grassroots outside the Beltway over &#8216;grasstops&#8217; and to find new ways of bringing low-information conservative voters into the fold&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In fairness to Team Romney, they did more right than not,&#8221; writes Patrick Ruffini in a patrickruffini.com blog burst titled The Fall of Romney, Inc. They rose from single digits in the national polls to receiving 32% of the primary votes cast to date. They became the conservative establishment’s choice. They leveraged mechanical and resource [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dotan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1361320&amp;post=678&amp;subd=dotan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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