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 * Mitt Romney **



** Current Government Position: **
 * Mitt Romney does not currently hold a political office

** Past Government Position: **
 * Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003- 2007

** Political Party: ** > ** Home State: **
 * Mitt Romney is running, and has ran as a republican in previous elections.
 * Mitt Romney was born and raised in Michigan
 * He resides in Massachusetts, however he has homes in several other states.

** Biography: **

Was born and raised in Michigan in 1947, as a child he looked up to his father, who like Mitt, was a successful business man who entered the political arena and became the governor of Michigan in 1963. Later, his father also ran for the presidency, however he was defeated much to Mitts disappointment. When he was older, Mitt co-founded Baine Capitol and worked there for a decade before running for a United States Senate seat in Massachusetts. He was defeated in that race by the longtime senator, Ted Kennedy. After being defeated Romney returned to his business life, but in 1999 he was appointed as the replacement president of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games where he successfully organized the event and also rescued it from the financial and ethical problems which had plagued it. After his success with the Winter Games Romney used this experience, and all the publicity it brought him, to run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. He won, and after serving one term decided not to run for reelection. Instead he ran for the republican party presidential nomination for the 2008 election but was defeated by John McCain. Romney stayed in the political arena as a party member and a active fundraiser for his party for several years, and in 2011 announced his plan to run for his party's nomination again, this time in 2012. He won the nomination and is currently running in a close race for president against Barack Obama the incumbent President of the United States.


 * Political Positions: **

Education: He believes that states should control the funding and structure, and type of education given to students and not the federal government. He also promotes school choice and letting students attend charter schools.

The Debt: Romney supports using cuts to entitlement programs as well as to other unspecified areas of government funding which he deems are unnecessary. He also believes that his proposed tax code reforms will increase the amount of money the government receives without raising taxes.

Taxes: Romney supports having low tax rates, which he believes will stimulate the economy and make it stronger. He supports making the Bush era tax cuts permanent and does not support raising taxes on the wealthy.

Healthcare: Romney supports states making their own healthcare laws and passed a healthcare bill himself as Governor of Massachusetts. He does not support the Affordable Care Act, even though the bill created, sponsored, and signed into law in Massachusetts is the law which the Act was primarily based off of.

Energy and the Environment: Romney wishes to cut federal funding of clean energy research and get rid of regulations in place which require businesses to be more environmentally friendly in their operations. He supports federal funding of the oil pipeline from Canada as well as funding for research to find ways to access more fossil fuels in the US.


 * Placement on the Political Spectrum: **

Romney originally ran in Massachusetts as a moderate republican, he stated that he was opposed to the conservative

section of his party. While Governor he made it his primary goal to pass a health care law in the state of Massachusetts

which would provide state sponsored health care for residents who could not afford it. This bill was considered very liberal at

the time which it was passed. After leaving the position of governor Mitt Romney spent time rethinking his positions so as to

make him more "electable" as a presidential candidate. He ran in 2008, and now in 2012 as a Conservative and changed his

stances on many issues in the time between, changing his alignment on the political spectrum.


 * Philosophy: **

Mitt Romney believes that the governments role is to help businesses, and to do so it must have as low of a tax rate

as possible as well as very lax regulations.

Base of Political Support
 * Base of Political Support**


 * Business People
 * Business Owners
 * Elderly Citizens
 * Republican Super PAC's
 * Republican 501 c4s
 * Republican Governors Public Policy Committee (501 c 4)
 * Restore our Future (Super Pac)


 * Source of Opposition **

**Campaign Website**
 * College Students
 * Poor Citizens
 * Young People
 * Workers Unions
 * Liberal Super PACs
 * House Majority PAC


 * www.mittromney.com


 * Video, Articles, and Quotes **

The link below is from the New York Times, and shows the two candidates in the third debate. The debate is broken up into the key issues, with a typed transcript of what the candidates said, a video of the part of the debate covered by the transcript, and fact check articles which discuss some of the important, and controversial things said by the candidate in the debate.


 * @http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/23/us/politics/20121023-third-presidential-debate-obama-romney.html


 * Interesting Facts **


 * He rescued a family and their dog from a lake with his jet ski when their boat sank.
 * Instead of letting his father pay for college, Romney financed his own way through it himself.
 * He donated his inheritance to charities
 * While serving as Governor of Massachusetts Romney only took a ceremonial salary of $1.


 * Polling Information and Projected Chance **


 * The race is very close and neither candidate can seem to take the lead
 * Some analysts project he will win the popular vote while Obama will win the electoral college
 * The majority of analysts however think the race is a toss up and are not sure who will win