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Mitt Romney and Michigan

Apr 27, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks at the Livingston County, Michigan Lincoln Day Dinner
Apr 13, 2007; Michigan State Representative Fulton Sheen To Lead Families Effort
Apr 12, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Names West Michigan Leadership Team
Mar 16, 2007; State Representative Dave Hildenbrand to Lead Governor Mitt Romney's Michigan Sportsmen Effort
Mar 05, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Announces Michigan Grassroots Steering Committee
Feb 15, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Announces Michigan "Romney" Caucus

Representative Dave Camp of Michigan

With his family by his side, Governor Romney announced his intention to run for the Presidency of the United States of America in Dearborn, Michigan and later traveled to campaign in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Romney should join flickr.

Reasons to agree

Flickr is a free way to store photos.
Flickr is owned by Yahoo. Yahoo has thousands of employees. Yahoo employees would be more likely to look at Romney photos, and therefore learn about him, if he used flickr.
Thousands of people use flickr. Flickr users would be more likely to look at Romney photos if he had a flickr account, and therefore learn about him, if he used flickr.
Barak Obama has a flickr account link featured prominently on his front page.
Mitt Romney's photos have some major problems. Users can not tag them, identify themselves if they are in the or comment on them. When users "tag" a photo in flickr, they help organize the photo, so Google, Yahoo, and MSN will know where that photo is, and what it is, and promote it in a Google, Yahoo, or MSN image search. If Romney got his picture taken with some Iowa students, and put that picture on his Flickr account, the Iowa students could identify themselves in the photo, and help promote the photo, out of their own interest. Putting photos into flickr is just one more way that a candidate can interact with the user. People can comment on the photo, give you feedback, and interact with you. It makes looking at your photos more interesting, because it is a game for them, that they can participate in... they can comment on, and discuss your photos, and interact with them.

Click here for more advice for Romney.

Click here to see my flickr account.

Here are all the tags that I have used to describe my photos. If you click here you will see the photos I have taken in Idaho. If Mitt Romney did that, and you could see all of his photos in Iowa, I think he would get more Iowa supporters.

Romney needs to embrace all these new technologies that let people find information about him faster, easier, and in a fun way.

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Hugh Hewitt and Governor Mitt Romney

Conservative Commentator Hugh Hewitt: "There's a long way to go until Iowa, but as 2007 opens, the momentum remains where it was throughout 2006, with Mitt Romney." (Hugh Hewitt's Blog, "Steyn, Owens, Romney And Me," http://hughhewitt.townhall.com, 1/4/07)

Conservative Radio Talk show host has long been hosting Romney on his show. He's not "on the record" as endorsing Romney . . . but he sure seems to be quite praiseworthy. It was at Hewitt's suggestion/request that Lowell and John started the Article6Blog.

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Mitt Romney in Iowa

If you are from Iowa and want to help with this site, please e-mail me.

Travels with Mitt: On the Road in Iowa

Iowa Republican Platform

Mar 22, 2007; Former Iowa Christian Alliance Director Joe Earle Joins Romney For President
Mar 15, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Names Senator Stewart Iverson As Adviser To Iowa Campaign
Mar 14, 2007; Romney for President Names Iowa County Chairs
Jan 30, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Names Additions to Iowa Leadership and Staff

Mitt Romney 2008 Announcement Des Moines Iowa

Governor Mitt Romney was joined by Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) during his visit to western Iowa on Thursday where he met with local activists and caucus goers for a luncheon. They later traveled to Onawa, IA for a coffee break with area Republicans.

On Monday, February 19, Governor Mitt Romney and his wife Ann traveled to Iowa to meet with local area residents and community leaders at the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce. They were later joined by Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) as Governor Romney delivered the keynote speech at the Sioux County Lincoln Day Dinner in Orange City, IA.

Governor Romney traveled to Des Moines, IA, Wednesday where he met with Republican Legislators at the Iowa State Capitol before traveling to Pioneer Hybrids in Johnston, IA, for a tour and meeting with employees. Romney ended the day with the opening of the Iowa campaign headquarters in Urbandale, IA and hosted the second "Ask Mitt Anything" Town Hall Meeting by telephone.

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Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, and Detroit Photos

Presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney holds a press conference before speaking to Michigan Republicans during the Michigan GOP Convention in Grand Rapids, Mi. on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Adam Bird)

Former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, left, and wife Ann listen to the Pledge of Allegiance before his speech at the Missouri Republican Party's 108th Lincoln Days gathering Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007 in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses members of the Alabama Republican Party, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens to Lawrence Johnson, director of the Center for Crops Utilization Research at Iowa State University, after a tour Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)

Republican Mitt Romney meets with the media after addressing the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. Romney used the first major policy speech of his fledgling presidential campaign to promote permanent tax cuts, portable health insurance and free and open markets. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Photos

This photo provided by the Massachusetts governors office shows Gov. Mitt Romney, left, meeting with a Massachusetts Army National Guard member assigned to Aviation Task Force, Camp Buehring, in Kuwait in this May 23, 2006 file photo, before visiting Iraq. (AP Photo/United States Air Force, Lt. Col. Martin Moerschell, File)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at fundraiser for the Republican Party of Orange County in Irvine Calif. in this June 17, 2005 file photo. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking to a Republican Women's club in Concord, N.H. in this March 18, 2006 file photo. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking to the Republican's at the 4th annual Ronald Reagan Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, in this Oct. 16, 2004 file photo. (AP Photo/Steve Pope, File)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a holiday reception in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. Romney will step down from office next month and is considered a possible 2008 presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney shakes hands with former state Speaker of the House Donna Sytek at a holiday reception in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. Romney will step down from office next month and is considered a possible 2008 presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets guests at a holiday reception at a holiday reception in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. Romney will step down from office next month and is considered a possible 2008 presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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A New Open-Source Politics

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13006799/site/newsweek

Just as Linux lets users design their own operating systems, so 'netroots' politicos may redesign our nominating system.

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A New Open-Source Politics
Just as Linux lets users design their own operating systems, so 'netroots' politicos may redesign our nominating system.

By Jonathan Alter

Newsweek

June 5, 2006 issue - Bob Schieffer of CBS News made a good point on "The Charlie Rose Show" last week. He said that successful presidents have all skillfully exploited the dominant medium of their times. The Founders were eloquent writers in the age of pamphleteering. Franklin D. Roosevelt restored hope in 1933 by mastering radio. And John F. Kennedy was the first president elected because of his understanding of television.

Will 2008 bring the first Internet president? Last time, Howard Dean and later John Kerry showed that the whole idea of "early money" is now obsolete in presidential politics. The Internet lets candidates who catch fire raise millions in small donations practically overnight. That's why all the talk of Hillary Clinton's "war chest" making her the front runner for 2008 is the most hackneyed punditry around. Money from wealthy donors remains the essential ingredient in most state and local campaigns, but "free media" shapes the outcome of presidential races, and the Internet is the freest media of all.

No one knows exactly where technology is taking politics, but we're beginning to see some clues. For starters, the longtime stranglehold of media consultants may be over. In 2004, Errol Morris, the director of "The Thin Blue Line" and "The Fog of War," on his own initiative made several brilliant anti-Bush ads (they featured lifelong Republicans explaining why they were voting for Kerry). Not only did Kerry not air the ads, he told me recently he never even knew they existed. In 2008, any presidential candidate with half a brain will let a thousand ad ideas bloom (or stream) online and televise only those that are popular downloads. Deferring to "the wisdom of crowds" will be cheaper and more effective.

Open-source politics has its hazards, starting with the fact that most people over 35 will need some help with the concept. But just as Linux lets tech-savvy users avoid Microsoft and design their own operating systems, so "netroots" political organizers may succeed in redesigning our current nominating system. But there probably won't be much that's organized about it. By definition, the Internet strips big shots of their control of the process, which is a good thing. Politics is at its most invigorating when it's cacophonous and chaotic.

To begin busting up the dumb system we have for selecting presidents, a bipartisan group will open shop this week at Unity08.com. This Internet-based third party is spearheaded by three veterans of the antique 1976 campaign: Democrats Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon helped get Jimmy Carter elected; Republican Doug Bailey did media for Gerald Ford before launching the political TIP SHEET Hotline. They are joined by the independent former governor of Maine, Angus King, and a collection of idealistic young people who are also tired of a nominating process that pulls the major party candidates to the extremes. Their hope: to get even a fraction of the 50 million who voted for the next American Idol to nominate a third-party candidate for president online and use this new army to get him or her on the ballot in all 50 states. The idea is to go viral—or die. "The worst thing that could happen would be for a bunch of old white guys like us to run this," Jordan says.

The Unity08 plan is for an online third-party convention in mid-2008, following the early primaries. Any registered voter could be a delegate; their identities would be confirmed by cross-referencing with voter registration rolls (which would also prevent people from casting more than one ballot). That would likely include a much larger number than the few thousand primary voters who all but nominate the major party candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire. This virtual process will vote on a centrist platform and nominate a bipartisan ticket. The idea is that even if the third-party nominee didn't win, he would wield serious power in the '08 election, which will likely be close.

There are plenty of ways for this process to prove meaningless, starting with the major parties deciding to nominate independent-minded candidates like John McCain (OK, the old McCain) or Mark Warner. Third-party efforts have usually been candidate-driven, and the centrist names tossed around by way of example (Chuck Hagel, Sam Nunn, Tom Kean) don't have much marquee value in the blogosphere. And the organizers would have to design safeguards to keep the whole thing from being hijacked.

But funny things happen in election years. With an issue as eye-glazing as the deficit, a wacky, jug-eared Texan named Ross Perot received 19 percent of the vote in 1992 and 7 percent in 1996. He did it with "Larry King Live" and an 800 number. In a country where more than 40 percent of voters now self-identify as independents, it's no longer a question of whether the Internet will revolutionize American politics, but when.

For more, go to JonathanAlter.com

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from Iowa: "For me and others, interest in Romney ended when we discovered he's one of those weird underwear-wearing Mormons"

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Re: "I don't get why some Republicans like Mitt Romney, the Governor of Taxachewshits. For me and others, interest in Romney ended when we discovered he's one of those weird underwear-wearing Mormons."

Here is an example of one person, in his own words, explain why he would not vote for a Mormon. Apparently no one from the Mormon religion is good, and everyone from the Mormon religion is bad.

Re: "Look at the dude. Lantern-jawed, excellent physical shape, jet black hair with graying temples, crisp suit, and too long in the tanning booth. He's a caricature of your slick and soulless politician."

So we can judge people by there looks now? Should we only vote fore people that are out of shape? That don't have gray hair? That don't tuck their shirts in? If you want to hate someone, you can say they don't have a soul. You can say they are no longer people. That makes it easy to hate them. However, everyone on this planet has a soul no matter how hard you try to demonize them.

re: "Anyway, according to the Boston Glob, Romney was in Iowa this past weekend giving a commencement speech at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. You remember Coe College , right? It's the place that hosted a huge anti-Semitic conference last year. Freaks!"

Allright, so you start off your post with some of the most hateful bigoted stuff I have ever heard, and then you get mad at anti-Semitics, and try to somehow say that Mitt is Anti-Semitic because of a protest that was there last year? It is very ironic that none of the anti-mitt sites allow people to post comments.

What an idiot.

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