Saturday, February 11, 2012

Double-Barreled Wins: Romney Takes Maine

More good news: Mitt Romney completed a double-barreled comeback Saturday night with a victory in Maine. He won 39 percent of the votes cast in preference polls at caucuses throughout the state.
Earlier Saturday, Romney pulled off a surprise win at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington. Romney clearly topped the CPAC field with 38 percent of the vote at the gathering of conservative activists.
Mitt Romney made the following statement on the results of the Maine caucuses:
“I thank the voters of Maine for their support. I’m committed to turning around America. And I’m heartened to have the support of so many good people in this great state.
“We stand for conservative principles, liberty and prosperity. All of these are under threat. I’m in this race because I believe that America can be turned around, that we don’t have to accept unemployment over 8 percent, a national debt that is as large as our entire economy, and a President who, even as his own policies fail, apologizes for America’s past successes. We’ve had enough. It’s time to reverse Barack Obama’s legacy of domestic disarray and foreign-policy weakness."

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