Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Tagg Romney: Father wanted to be president ‘less than anyone I’ve met’ [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)about the campaign were on. They were asked about why Ann Romney never appeared in any commercials for her husband. The guys stated that the Press had asked the campaign about this many times, and the campaign stated that the Romney's didn't want to be putting Ann out there in campaign ads. They later learned after the election was over, that the campaign made several different commercials using Ann Romney talking about her husband, but none of them did well with the focus groups that reviewed them. The focus groups did not like the way she came across at all. They said it was not the usual, "well that is what you would expect to hear from any spouse", it was "she did not come across very well at all and the point of making the commercials was to make her husband more likeable so they scrapped them.
The also said that the reason you didn't see Mitt in more intimate settings with ordinary people, i.e. Mitt going into a local establishment such as Obama visiting the pizza parlor owned by the Republican. They said that campaign was afraid to put Mitt out in those kinds of settings because whenever Romney was around ordinary people, they never knew what was going to come out of his mouth, and whenever he was put into those settings he always said something really awkward which did not go over very well, so they made sure that he wasn't put into those types of situations.