Senator Paul Ryan has been praising Romney and just today as well.
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Gigot: Welcome to "The Journal Editorial Report." I'm Paul Gigot.
Well, a double victory Tuesday in Michigan and Arizona put presidential hopeful Mitt Romney back on top of the Republican race, a position he's held and lost several times before in the primary process. So how did he do it, and can the same strategies help him in Super Tuesday states?
Let's ask Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor Dan Henninger, Political Diary editor Jason Riley, editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz and Washington columnist Kim Strassel.
So, Dan, how did Romney do it? Can he keep doing it?
Henninger: I think so. In the exit polls, people for whom the economy was the biggest issue, Romney won by 17 points.
Gigot: Yeah, that's really remarkable.
Henninger: Now he also won in Detroit--Wayne County--and he won Macomb County, the so-called Reagan Democrat county, which is to say in areas where they're--people are under the most economic stress. He had introduced that new tax program, the economic program, the 20% tax cut across the board. And he's also been aligning himself with basically Paul Ryan's ideas on Medicare. So I think on the one hand, he's been showing people that he can be a real conservative. And he's presenting a coherent economic program in a way that I think is just pulling the Romney campaign together on the single most important issue in the campaign.
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