Mitt Romney snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in Michigan by unveiling a pro-growth, 20 percent tax-cut plan and by resetting his limited-government spending cuts and entitlement reforms. In other words, he delivered an economic-growth package. It served him well.
It may not have been the only factor in his victory last week, but it put him squarely in the voter zeitgeist. And it may be apocryphal on Super Tuesday in Ohio, where he has come back to dead even after being down double digits.
Read my full column here.
Yeah, the millions of dollars worth of negative attack ads Romney and his surrogates paid for had nothing to do with it. No one in Michigan escaped being relentlessly pounded by Romney's negative attacks over the past month.
Meanwhile, the new tax plan that approximately .00001% of MI voters were even aware of, much less familiar with, was the key factor in his 'victory'.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAarradin should be writing for NRO. He seems to understand politics better than most of the other writers.
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