Romney will return to Virginia on Friday
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to the crowd during a rally in Abingdon, Va., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
If there are any doubts about how hard Republican Mitt Romney is fighting for Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, his travel schedule should put them to rest.
Romney will hold a campaign event in Chesterfield County on Friday. It will be Romney’s third campaign stop in Virginia this week and his fifth since his debate last week with President Barack Obama. Romney delivered a major foreign policy speech at Virginia Military Institute on Monday before attending a campaign event in Newport News.
Obama won Virginia in 2008, the first time in 44 years that a Democrat carried the state. Romney has made more trips to the state than John McCain did in 2008, and Republicans said they have put together a more effective ground operation in the state than they did four years ago.
In a conference call today, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said party volunteers have made contact with 4 million voting-age Virginia residents by phone or by door-knocking. That far exceeds the party’s outreach efforts of four years ago, he said.
Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign’s political director, said voter contacts are a more effective measure of organizational strength than the amount of staff and offices a campaign has in the state.
“The Obama campaign talks about the number of staff and offices they have in every state,” Beeson said. “That’s their metric. That’s what they’ll talk about is how many staff and how many offices they have.”
Beeson said Romney’s campaign has the resources to have as many paid staff and offices in the state but “we just choose not to.”
“We choose to work smarter and simpler, and you can see in the public and the private polling the nunber of people in the commonwealth who say that they’ve been contacted by either the Romney campaign or the Obama campaign is virtually equal,” Beeson said.
During a brief question-and-answer session, Beeson identified Southwest Virginia — particularly the coalfields region — as a region where he expects strong support for Romney. Romney campaigned in Abingdon last Friday and has been running ads depicting Obama as an enemy of the coal industry.
“Anybody in coal country voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,” Beeson said.
Adam Hodge, a regional spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, questioned the legitimacy of the GOP’s claims about voter contacts. Hodge cited last week’s news that the GOP had severed ties with a consulting firm that had been hired to register voters in Virginia and other states because of allegations of election fraud in Florida.
“While Romney campaign has been paying political consultants to knock on doors and send out robocalls, Obama supporters have been working for more than three years to organize their neighborhoods, recruit new volunteers, and build the largest grassroots campaign in history,” Hodge wrote in an email.
– Michael Sluss
October 9, 2012 - 5:06 PM
Romney will encourage military spending, Syria intervention:
Romney plans to say that he believes in working with partner nations to arm rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. He would equip the rebels – “who share our values” — with heavy weapons to take out “tanks, helicopters and fighter jets,” according to the remarks. Romney will also argue that the U.S. must support the rebels to develop influence and good relations with the Syria’s future leaders.
Romney actually plans to double-down on the FAILED FOREIGN POLICY of George W. Bush, in which you invade first and ask questions later. This cowboy mentality has no place on the world stage, and since Romney has ZERO foreign policy experience he has no choice but to rely on the same misguided foreign policy advisers that advised Bush/Cheney.
NO MORE WAR ROB-ME!!!!!! SEND YOUR OWN SONS
Sweet justice when Romney wins and that traitor perilo realizes he threw his career down the tubes, sold his vote to Obama for nothing.
“Anybody in coal country voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,” Beeson said.”
Or they are intelligent enough to fully realize the truth concerning coal and it’s role as an energy source for the future.
So just that I can make a clear choice, who would benefit in a world where Romney is president?
Why are Romney and Obama focusing on those people who are already voting for them? Sure, they make campaign stops when they need to refill their coffers, but they need to be out there focusing on the independent voters and those voting for Johnson.
4.So just that I can make a clear choice, who would benefit in a world where Romney is president?
The CORPSmen (which the current president doesn’t even know how to pronounce).
NO MORE WAR ROB-ME!!!!!! SEND YOUR OWN SONS
Libya is Obama’s war
In answer to your question, no one.
#6…Who would prosper ? Well, for example, if you flip homes for a living and obama is reelected, your capital gains tax goes from 18 to 25%….With Romney, he will do away with capital gains which will allow the individual to rehab MORE homes, thereby creating MORE jobs, stimulating the DISMAL economy, and being able to help more people become homeowners.
Refer to #9 when you need an answer to #8 ignorance.
#2 Periello is a sheep and a shining example of how obama and the Democrat party will use you up and discard you..Tom Periello is a fool.
JeffDoto on house flipping…lmao.
#6 Yeah, I’ll have to vote against Obama because he mispronounced a word. Good thinking as usual, Kathie.