In an interview from Iowa with NBC News’s Chuck Todd, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum made an interesting pitch — he argued that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is too liberal to attract the voters necessary to win the presidential election as a Republican. Romney has “no track record of actually attracting voters who are Reagan Democrats,” he said.
The idea is a little counter-intuitive, as Santorum is saying that Romney is too moderate for conservative Democrats, who therefore would go for a more liberal President Barack Obama. But he pressed on: “That’s how you win the industrial Midwestern states that are necessary to win this election,” he said. “Reagan Democrats — that’s my bread and butter.”
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