Politics & Government
Romney Working to Secure GOP Nomination in Florida
With Florida's primary on Jan. 31, Mitt Romney has been blanketing the state's television airwaves, aggressively courting absentee voters and wooing local evangelical leaders, the Associated Press reports.
Regardless of what happens in South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, Jan. 21, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney is working to ensure Florida seals his nomination, according to the Associated Press.
With Florida’s primary on Jan. 31, the former Massachusetts governor has been blanketing the state's television airwaves, aggressively courting absentee voters and wooing local evangelical leaders, the AP reports.
The AP says that campaigning for president in Florida, a state about the size of six New Hampshires with double the combined population of Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, requires the kind of money that only Romney seems to have.
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So far, Romney's campaign has spent $2.3 million on Florida television advertising, while the pro-Romney political action committee, Restore Our Future, has spent an additional $4 million on Florida television to date, the AP reports.
"Romney has been here and established longer than any other presidential candidate that's running on the Republican ticket," Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll told the AP. "He has the money and the organization and that's always an advantage."
