Romney Unpopular in Home State

No HOME TEAM Advantage for Romney in Massachusetts

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is so unpopular in Massachusetts that a  Rasmusssen Poll has  Romney trailing Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by 26 percentage points, 60% to 34%. He also trails John Edwards by 21-points (54% to 33%) and Barack Obama by 18-points (54% to 36%). I guess the moral of the poll is "to know him is not to love him".

His constant attacks on undocumented immigrants, and the same old division politics and flip flops on pro choice, gay rights and making fun of Massachusetts on the stump, have not helped.

Also, Rudy Giuliani  trails Clinton 58% to 33% and Freddie Thompson, trails Clinton 61% to 27%.

In addition, sixty-five percent (65%) of Massachusetts voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton while 62% offer an upbeat assessment of both Obama and Edwards. The Republican candidates don’t fare as well. In the Bay State, 47% have a favorable opinion of Giuliani, 43% say the same about Romney, and 36% have a positive assessment of Thompson.

Romney might be counting on getting a bump in New Hampshire from the   Massachusetts Factor, that recently has given a bump to Massachusetts candidates like Dukakis, Tsongas and Kerry in the New Hampshire Primary.

But all three of these candidates were popular in Massachusetts at the time of the election. Romney is now very unpopular in Massachusetts, except with the ultra conservatives. Some say this is because Massacusetts too liberal, but Massachusetts had 16 years straight of Republican Governors (Bill Weld, Jane Swift, Paul Cellucci, Jane Swift and Romney), before this year.

•  Er...home state?

  I think not.

  by ablington on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:03:08 PM PDT

  •  I guess he considers Mass. his present address,

    but I think the Bay Staters wish he would move back to Utah.

    by immigradvocate on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:05:49 PM PDT

    •  His 'home state'

      is wherever it's most appealing to whatever crowd he is addressing.

      by ablington on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:10:49 PM PDT

    •  didn't he grow up in Michigan?

      After all, his father headed American Motors 1954-1962 and served as governor there 1963-1969.

      by N in Seattle on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:22:43 PM PDT

      •  Mitt Romney is of Mexican decent

        His Grandfather was born there. Thanks for the Wikipedia link to George Romney. I checked it out and it's Linked to Mitt Romney. It has his polygamist Great grandfather moving to Mexico to avoid the polygamy laws in the U.S. His grandfather was born in Chihuahua. Then he snuck accross the border. I wonder if he was an undocumented immigrant.

        by immigradvocate on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 05:48:12 PM PDT

        •  I meant to say his Father was born in Mexico.

          oops!

          by immigradvocate on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 05:53:55 PM PDT

  •  Didn't he grow up in Springfield?

    . . which kinda sorta narrows things a bit when trying to figure out where he's from . . .

    by Roadbed Guy on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:33:33 PM PDT

    •  Shelbyville, actually.

      by ablington on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:52:32 PM PDT

      •  Hoot Hoot Hoot

        (those are well deserved hate hoots, btw, Damn Shelbyvillians!)

        by Roadbed Guy on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 03:08:03 PM PDT

  •  Which home state would that be?

    He couldn't kick off in Utah, or Massachusetts, so he settled on Michigan.  

    by Inland on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 03:49:09 PM PDT

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  by immigradvocate on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:03:46 PM PDT

•  GOP implosion

  It's very interesting watching how quick GOP is imploding. Their candidates are going nowhere quick.

  my guess: The media or party leader does not let them go out too far from current Bush talking points. So they are all dead in the water. (ie. they can't go far right, since Bush needs to tone down the rhetoric, they can't go center/bash Bush, cause Bush won't let them.)

  So.. implosion. It's amazing.

  by fugue on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 02:22:01 PM PDT

  •  Karl Rove Said Iraq Was a Winner

    They made that strategic decision in 2003 and ran with it

    by bernardpliers on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 03:03:21 PM PDT

    •  Karl Rove, supergenius. n/t

      by dallasdave on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 03:14:31 PM PDT

•  Did Rasmussen ask about...

  Romney the governor or Romney the GOP presidential candidate?

  Seems only fair to put them both on the poll question because they are entirely different people.

  by The Eyewitness Muse on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 04:34:18 PM PDT

  •  Actually,

    I think you mean the candidate for governor, or the governor/presidential candidate. That was the most annoying thing, to me, about his time as governor here.  It was so obvious that the state meant nothing to him and it was just the necessary steppingstone to his presidential run.  His whole term was nothing but a long run for president.

    by most peculiar mama on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 04:46:33 PM PDT

•  Romney's unpopular in Utah?

  Wow. That might be news.

  Massachusetts, though ... no. He didn't run for reelection because he didn't have a chance. Even the local wingnuts hate him.

  by Jon Meltzer on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 04:41:46 PM PDT

  •  If I remember right, he seems like he was running

    for president from day one in Mass. And Healy (his lt. gov.) got no support in her race against Deval Patrick. It was a blowout. They hadn't had a Democratic gov. since Dukakis.
    Mitt didn't do anything for massachusetts, unless he thought it would help him nationally. He was even out joking about Mass. being kind of out the mainsteam liberal. ha ha. The joke is on Mitt now.

    by immigradvocate on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 05:29:53 PM PDT

    •  It was a blowout ...

      because Kerry Healey ran a blatant despicable racist campaign in such a way that offended the Massachusetts culture's sense of manners. There's plenty of racism here, but one doesn't go around calling one's opponent a n*gger rapist from a family of n*gger rapists that's going to let all the n*gger rapists into your neighborhood. That just isn't nice.

      by Jon Meltzer on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 05:46:32 AM PDT