Refocusing the presidential campaign on the economy is written, in pen, at the top of Mitt Romney’s to-do list at this week’s Republican National Convention. His next priority, which might be nearly as important, appears to be projecting warmth and compassion, qualities that many voters look for in their candidates — but that few attribute to Romney, according to polls.
Beginning the effort two days before the weather-delayed start of the convention in Tampa, Romney put his family-man qualities on display Sunday in a television interview at his lakeside home in Wolfeboro, N.H. Romney made buttermilk pancakes with his wife, Ann, for Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and strolled the grounds of his family’s vacation compound with a young grandson on his hip.
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"A key question over the next two months is whether voters will embrace this pancake-flipping, Costco-shopping version of Romney, who right now scores poorly on measures of his ability to relate to typical voters." It would be so nice if Globe writers could put aside their snide prose about Mitt Romney and accept the fact that a majority of Americans will vote for him in November because he offers real hope and change.
No, Reince. The poll doesn't prove that people think Romney is a lying scum that doesn't care. Mitt takes care of that on his own.
So much for that "leave of absence" we were all so excited about.