May 28, 2012 2:50 pm
Romney emerges as a potent adversary
By Richard McGregor in Washington
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Mr Romney has overcome months of criticism that he was a lightweight leader of a weak field and emerged from the Republican ruck as a potent adversary for the president.
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“The notion that he was a weak frontrunner has not been substantiated,” says Vin Weber, a former congressman and a Romney campaign adviser. “People have misdiagnosed the race a lot over the past year.”
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But despite multiple obstacles, Mr Romney has so far surmounted every challenge thrown his way and positioned himself competitively ahead of the launch of the general election campaign.
Mr Obama and Mr Romney are virtually tied in national polls, though the president fares slightly better in voter surveys in crucial battleground states, such as Ohio.
In the past week, the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mr Romney’s record at Bain Capital, far from hurting the candidate, have split Democrats, with a number of prominent party figures supporting the private equity industry.
Mr Romney has benefited from the most important factor unifying Republicans of all stripes – their deep and at times fanatical antipathy to Mr Obama.
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“Having collided with him and his organisation head-on and now working with his campaign, he has assembled a very smart group of people,” Mr Gingrich told MSNBC. “He is approaching this as methodically as anybody I know.”
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