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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (180950)	2/1/2012 3:22:45 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541785

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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (180950)	2/1/2012 4:47:19 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541785

re..Mitts ranking falling apart..... (from NPR...) SHAPIRO: Romney told reporters he would have liked to have focused more on President Obama as he pinballed around the state. But Gingrich made sure that was not an option, putting the heat on Romney as never before. ROMNEY: If you're attacked, I'm not going to just sit back. I'm going to fight back and fight back hard. SHAPIRO: The presidential campaign was negative through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. But Florida took the attacks to a whole new level. The Romney campaign smashed the piggy bank and flooded the airwaves with attack ads, outspending Gingrich by about five to one. Tom Lee is a Romney campaign co-chair in Florida. TOM LEE: It's an expensive place to run. You've got to have a ground game, you've got to be well organized, and you've got to be able to spend a million dollars a week to get a thousand rating points in these expensive media markets, and I knew Governor Romney was the only one that had organized well enough early to prepare himself for a battleground like Florida. SHAPIRO: The Intense Negativity took a toll on the former Massachusetts governor. A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that Romney's favorability rating among independents has dropped from a high in the mid-40s last fall to just 23 percent today. Exit polls in Florida found that a plurality believed his campaign had been the most unfair. At the same time, the sharp attacks on Romney by Gingrich may have tilled the soil for Democrats in the fall. LEE: In his victory speech in Tampa last night, Romney said that's what the other party wants you to think. ROMNEY: They like to comfort themselves with the thought that a competitive campaign will leave us divided and weak. But I've got news for them. A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us. And we will win.