Wednesday, June 13, 2012

No Home-Field Advantage for Mitt Romney - The Daily Beast - The Republican with roots in three blue states gives up on all of them, writes John Avlon. - There are a lot of things different about this presidential campaign: an African-American incumbent running against a Mormon, most obviously. But on a more mundane level, there is uncharted strategic territory as well: never before has a presidential candidate written off their home state. - Or all of them, in Mitt Romney's case. - Despite headquartering his campaign in Boston, the former governor of Massachusetts isn't going to win his home state this fall. More significantly, he isn't going to try. - Ditto California, the state where he owns a beachfront La Jolla home complete with a $55,000 car elevator. And Michigan, the state of his birth, where his father served two terms as governor.

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