If Mitt Romney Was A Democrat

[Jacobtm]

I don't see why people think those from the north-east are incapable of winning. If Kerry had been able to switch the minds of 59,000 people in Ohio, he'd be President right now. It was the fact that John Kerry was a horrible candidate and ran a very ineffective and disjointed campaign that caused him to lose, not the "North-Eastern Liberal" label. Anyone who would choose not to vote for someone just because they're from that hellish region known as "New England" isn't going to vote for a Democratic candidate anyway. However, there are plenty of rational people who wouldn't want to vote for John Kerry for myriad justifiable reasons.

So if Mitt Romney (D-Ma) were the presidential candidate in 2004, and instead of having thrown his, or someone elses, vietnam medals onto the whitehouse lawn before he was in government, I think he might've gotten some people to vote Democratic. If instead of having voted for the war, before he voted against it, he had gotten universal healthcare for his citizens, he might've changed some more minds.

In the end, I think Mitt Romney (D-Ma) could've easily won all the states Kerry won in '04, and without the other flaws Kerry had, and with a much more impressive record of accomplishments, he could've easily gotten the 1.1% swing in Ohio he needed to win that, as well as the less than .5% swing he'd need to win in Iowa and New Mexico, giving him a decisive win.