11-Jan-2012 - For Romney, Friends in High Places Help Get Out the NH Vote

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“It means something pro over-ear red headphone more than just some caller from Timbuktu,” said Gary Lambert, a Nashua-area lawmaker, who chuckled as he recalled a voter who refused to believe it was really Mr. Lambert on the line. For years Mr. Romney has been relentlessly cultivating local officials, calling them on their birthdays, speaking at their dinners and fund-raisers, and spreading campaign donations to Republican candidates up and down the ticket. Now, as Mr. Romney seeks a quick end to the Republican nomination fight, his allies in New Hampshire are returning the favor, powering a Romney machine that no other candidate can match. Beginning not long after the end of the 2008 campaign, Mr. Romney methodically built a network of allies across the nation. And in recent months he has been rolling out their endorsements at key moments, using them to help him raise money and getting access to their local get-out-the-vote networks. Nowhere are the benefits to Mr. Romney’s advance work more evident than in New Hampshire, where voters demand a retail touch and senior elected officials list their home phone numbers on official Web sites. In an effort to persuade voters to turn out on Tuesday — and to ensure that they do — the Romney auxiliary is rousting volunteers, deploying their staffs, making calls and writing personal letters to constituents. “There are 12 wards in Manchester, and we have between 5 and 10 ward captains in every ward,” said Ted Gatsas, the Republican mayor of Manchester and a former president of the State Senate, where every Republican member’s campaign fund-raising committee received a 1,000 check from Mr. Romney’s political action committee last year. “We’re sharing lists and ward captains with him, getting people to the polls, getting people to make phone calls,” Mr. Gatsas added. “I’m not here to toot my own horn, but I won by 73 percent of the vote last time.” New Hampshire officials have showered Mr. Romney with dozens of endorsements, so many that it took a three-page pamphlet — sent by the Romney campaign beats by dr dre studio headphone black/white to New Hampshire voters recently — to list them all. They introduce him at virtually every campaign stop, flood gyms and seniors centers with crowds on short notice and attack his Republican rivals. Their support, and his overwhelming financial advantage, has also helped give Mr. Romney a strategic flexibility that other candidates lack. While the other top finishers in Iowa raced to New Hampshire last week, Mr. Romney took a day to campaign in South Carolina, where he has not always been popular but now leads in some polls. After losing the race for his party’s nomination in 2008, Mr. Romney devoted considerable time in the intervening years to court potential supporters. Mindful that he fared poorly four years ago against Senator John McCain in rural parts of New Hampshire, Mr. Romney and his team carefully cultivated politically influential figures like Douglas Dutile, the sheriff of Grafton County, located along the state’s western border, and Raymond S. Burton, a state executive councilor, who has represented the northern half of New Hampshire since the 1970s. Mr. Romney also courted the state’s rising Republican stars. When Republicans were seeking to win control of the State House last year, Mr. Romney’s political action committee beats by dre stuido ferrari headphone spread thousands of dollars in contributions among candidates for state representative and came to New Hampshire to campaign with some of them, including D J. Bettencourt, then a 20-something rank-and-file lawmaker with a following among conservative activists here.

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11-Jan-2012 - For Romney, Friends in High Places Help Get Out the NH Vote

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“It means something more than just some caller from Timbuktu,” said Gary Lambert, a Nashua-area lawmaker, who chuckled as he recalled a voter who refused to believe it was really Mr. Lambert on the line. For years Mr. Romney has been relentlessly cultivating local officials, calling them on their birthdays, speaking at their dinners and fund-raisers, and spreading campaign donations to Republican candidates up and down the ticket. Now, as Mr. Romney seeks a quick end to the Republican nomination fight, his allies in New Hampshire are returning the favor, powering a Romney machine that no other candidate can match. Beginning not long after the end of the 2008 campaign, Mr. Romney methodically built a network of allies across the nation. And in recent months he has been rolling out their endorsements at key moments, using them to help him raise money and getting access to studio high definition red headphone their local get-out-the-vote networks. Nowhere are the benefits to Mr. Romney’s advance work more evident than in New Hampshire, where voters demand a retail touch and senior elected officials list their home phone numbers on official Web sites. In an effort to persuade voters to turn out on Tuesday — and to ensure that they do — the Romney auxiliary is rousting volunteers, deploying their staffs, making calls and writing personal letters to constituents. “There are 12 wards in Manchester, and we have between 5 and 10 ward captains in every ward,” black/yellow pro headphone said Ted Gatsas, the Republican mayor of Manchester and a former president of the State Senate, where every Republican member’s campaign fund-raising committee received a 1,000 check from Mr. Romney’s political action committee last year. “We’re sharing lists and ward captains with him, getting people to the polls, getting people to make phone calls,” Mr. Gatsas added. “I’m not here to toot my own horn, but I won by 73 percent of the vote last time.” New Hampshire officials have showered Mr. Romney with dozens of endorsements, so many that it took a three-page pamphlet — sent by the Romney campaign to New Hampshire voters recently — to list them all. They introduce him at virtually every campaign stop, flood gyms and seniors centers with crowds on short notice and attack his Republican rivals. Their support, and his overwhelming financial advantage, has also helped give Mr. Romney a strategic flexibility that other candidates lack. While the other top finishers in Iowa raced to New Hampshire last week, Mr. Romney took a day to campaign in South Carolina, where he has not always been popular but now leads in some polls. After losing the race for his party’s nomination in 2008, Mr. Romney devoted considerable time in the intervening years to court potential supporters. Mindful that he fared poorly four years ago against Senator John McCain in rural parts of New Hampshire, Mr. Romney and his team carefully cultivated politically influential figures like studio black headphone from monster Douglas Dutile, the sheriff of Grafton County, located along the state’s western border, and Raymond S. Burton, a state executive councilor, who has represented the northern half of New Hampshire since the 1970s. Mr. Romney also courted the state’s rising Republican stars. When Republicans were seeking to win control of the State House last year, Mr. Romney’s political action committee spread thousands of dollars in contributions among candidates for state representative and came to New Hampshire to campaign with some of them, including D J. Bettencourt, then a 20-something rank-and-file lawmaker with a following among conservative activists here.

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