Mitt Romney,  President 2008

Mitt Romney Mormon-Gate Watch: Did Romney Staffers Drive the Flap?

Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks to reporters Monday, Nov. 19, 2007 after landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle for a day of fund-raising and other private activities in the area, including talking to a group of Microsoft Corp. employees.

Soren Dayton has the poop on the role of Mitt Romney campaign staffers and the breaking of the “Mormon-Gate” story.

And, does Erick Erickson over at Redstate have a valid theory of who did it?

Now, let me throw out a new theory that I’ve been mulling over since talking to a friend this morning.

Gage and Target Point have denied doing push polling. These calls lasted about 20 minutes according to the people who have been interviewed about them. What if these weren’t push polls, but actual polling by a campaign? And the people who ran to the press were hypersensitive to the issue because they’re already supporting Romney (and paid by the campaign?).

Let’s get directly to my theory, which I admit is a bit off the wall. What if a campaign conducted a legitimate poll (push polls don’t last 20 minutes), asked about the Mormon issues in the polling, and Romney supporters who happened to get the call ran to the media screaming about them being push polls.

Now, and here’s the wild speculation on my part, what if legitimate polling was being done by the Romney campaign or a third party group or a Democrat who really doesn’t care, to find out why the Romney campaign has reached an apparent ceiling in Iowa and New Hampshire and, out of an abundance of caution, wanted to see if “the Mormon factor” is actually having an impact? Because of the nature of the questions, some Mitt supporters thought they were being push polled, and the whole thing blew up.

Erick may be onto something. The Romney folks polling “blew up” over the Mormon issue and when it did they have attempted to turn it into a “positive” – like when Mitt took over the Olympics and turned it around.

  • Finally, Mitt complained this was un-American and blamed John McCain again – McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform.

And, what is Justin Hart’s role with MyManMitt.com in disseminating the story. An unofficial blogger Justin is as “unofficial” as Hugh Hewitt is neutral in the Presidential race. For that matter, wasn’t Justin on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show today? Funny how he didn’t mention that Romney staffers were the ones who narc’ed about the anti-Mormon calls to the MSM.

Interesting?

Perhaps, it is all “inside” baseball politics.

But, as Flap said before, if anyone in the Romney campaign is responsible, Mitt’s campaign for President is DONE.

Stay tuned as this story further develops…..

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Push Polls Highlighting Mitt Romney as a Mormon Being Conducted in Iowa and New Hampshire – Part Two

Push Polls Highlighting Mitt Romney as a Mormon Being Conducted in Iowa and New Hampshire


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