Romney - What to look forward to

'Romney was governor from 2003 to 2007, and as Edward Mason and Tom Mashberg explained the other day, Romney failed to impress much of anyone'.

'Romney entered the Massachusetts State House in January 2003 with a flashy favorability rating of 61 percent…'.

'By November 2004, voters were souring, and a Suffolk poll found his favorable rating had dropped to 47 percent'.

'A year later, that rating sank another 14 points. Just 33 percent of Bay State voters had a favorable opinion of Romney in 2005, according to Suffolk'.

'By November 2006, as he closed out his increasingly absentee term, his overall job approval rating had cratered to 36 percent'.

* From 61% to 36% in just 4 years.

'Maybe it’s because he was a GOP governor in a reliably “blue” state? No, Massachusetts has had plenty of modern Republican governors — Weld, Cellucci, Swift — and all were more popular with their Bay State constituents than Romney'.

'Here’s the sample question reporters can ask Romney: why were you so woefully unpopular with your own constituents when voters gave you a chance to lead'?
From : http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/those_who_saw_romneys_leadersh034044.php