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An NBC News poll, released Thursday in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal and Marist College, showed the president leading Romney, 51 to 44 percent, among likely voters. A poll released Friday by the American Research Group showed a 5-point edge for the president, 50 to 45 percent. A Granite State Poll released Monday showed Obama leading Romney, 52 to 37 percent, among likely voters. The poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center for WMUR, reported the biggest lead for the president of all recent polls here.
But I’m not sure that reminding people that one of his mansions happens to be nearby helps connect him with the common man. Set back a half-mile from the road and up a long and narrow driveway, the Romneys’ three-story estate is shielded from would-be gawkers. Romney bought most of the property in 1997 for less than $3 million from hotel executive and fellow Brigham Young University alumnus Butch Cash. Romney later bought another lot for about $85,000 to get a little extra room. To the extent that the Republican nomination goes to the candidate whose “turn” it is, Romney is well positioned.
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Although Detroit real estate has been hard hit in the past few years, Palmer Woods real estate remained steady as a high-end neighborhood. However, even an upscale location couldn’t save Romney’s childhood home from foreclosure or the wrecking ball. After falling into disrepair in 2009, the house was one of 3,000 Detroit homes razed in the city’s renewal plan. "That's what people are attracted to about this town," she said. "No one is here to prove whose star shines brightest." One copy of Romney's book, No Apologies, sits on a store shelf, but Baker says she would never dare infringe on his privacy by asking him to come in and sign it for sale.
She is a resolute Romney supporter, as is Danielle, a Romney field representative in the area. With national unemployment above 9 percent, Romney’s private-sector experience as an executive who assisted struggling businesses appeals deeply to boosters who view it as an irresistible campaign metaphor. The senator, former Massachusetts governor and one-time Republican presidential nominee has unloaded his condo in Belmont, Mass., and now the Romneys are leaving their most controversial home set in a stunning location. The Utah Republican has sold his beachfront home in La Jolla, Calif.
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Neighbors walk their dogs down the street where the only address is Romney's. Locals bundle up out-of-towners and take them for rides on their boats to see the Republican presidential contender's house from the water, the most spectacular view. Little pumpkins decorate the driveway, despite the fact that lakefront property is closed up for thewinter. Localsbundle up out-of-towners and take them for rides on their boats to see the Republican presidentialcontender's house from the water, the most spectacular view. It’s a stunning getaway destination that, in this election year, comes with a bit of a burden.
This time the doubters believe he is already bleeding, wounded by years of opponents’ charges that his career has been defined by expedient flip-flops. They suspect his condition has worsened in the wake of escalating attacks over something he refuses to renounce, a Massachusetts health-care plan he signed into law as that state’s governor. Romney’s opponents criticized him during the 2012 presidential race for planning to add a “car elevator” to his La Jolla home, using it to attempt to paint him as a rich, out-of-touch politician.
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"They're really justpart of the crowd when they're here," she says. She and her husband spotted the Romneys atbandstand summer concerts and the local hardware store. The main house — a 5,400-square-foot contemporary — has six bedrooms. A 2,700-square-foot boathouse sits on the 760 feet of lake frontage. Its 2,600-square-foot stable has been converted into a guest house. While I understand the sentiment, I think you are forgetting that with time, the worm turns.
Romney’s home was no exception; the 9,514-square-foot home sold in 2009 for a little under the $5.25 million asking price. With a 5,400-square-foot main house and additional guest house, the estate is worth an estimated $10 million. Home to the Romney crew – children and grandchildren – each summer, some wonder if the GOP candidate’s familiarity with the state helped him clinch the New Hampshire primary. While much of Romney’s assets comes from his tenure at Bain & Company and investment firm Bain Capital, the presidential contender grew up in relative wealth as the son of American Motor Corporation CEO and former Michigan governor George W. Romney.
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Purchased for $3 million in 1997, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader, the home is now valued at more than $10 million. Occupying nearly 800 feet of waterfront, the view from the lake is "fabulous," says local real estate agent Kathryn Aiken. Occupying nearly 800 feet of waterfront, the view from the lake is "fabulous," said local real estate agent Kathryn Aiken. George Romney, Mitt’s father and a former Michigan governor, and J. According to Town of Wolfeboro records, the stable house, which was valued at $250,000 when the Romneys purchased the property in 1997, is now worth $2.1 million. The lot where the stable is located alone is valued at $1.3 million, according to local tax records.
I don’t begrudge Edwards nor do I have angst towards Edwards…I said I just wrinkle my nose a little bit. I begrudge nobody that makes money legally, no matter how much they amass. I do however wrinkly my nose a bit when you tell me you are “common folk” and then get a $1400 haircut. In 2012 the GOP is still going to be trying to recover their brand identity and may very well be facing more bruising interparty fighting. It’s a lot more likely the Dems will take Texas than that the GOP will take Cali .
This is probably the closest most of us will get to view Mitt Romney's 11 acre lakefront estate on Lake Winnipesaukee. Located conveniently close to downtown Wolfeboro, it includes guest facilities, stables, a boathouse, breakwater, covered docks, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, and a small, private beach. Town residents have only kinds things to say about the Romneys, but that doesn't mean they wantthem in the White House. There's a pervasive fear that their quaint, quiet town might turn intotourist haven -- as Kennebunkport, Maine, did when one of its summer residents, George H.W. Bush,became president. Nancy Bell, who was born in Wolfeboro and works at the local high school, isworried that the security and tourists that would invade town with Romney in Washington. "The fearis there that some of the small town character of Wolfeboro could be lost." She said she likes "that Ican walk down the street and see people I know and walk into the post office and say hi," withoutthe intrusion of strangers.
"We remember when Barack Obama came to New Hampshire four years ago. He promised to bring people together. He promised to change the broken system in Washington. He promised to improve our nation. "Thank you, New Hampshire! Tonight, we made history!" he told the crowd. - Mitt Romney didn't waste any time delivering his victory remarks in New Hampshire Tuesday night.
Some in the neighborhood accused him of building a house that was out of character with the decidedly upscale area. The senator still has his 5,900-square-foot home in Holladay, which he built in 2014. He has his vacation home in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee, his $8.9 million ski chalet in Park City, and his place in the Washington, D.C., area.
Romney didn’t leave until he chatted with nearly all of the 300-plus guests in attendance, she recalls. Former Romney allies and skeptics are conspicuous throughout the state, including in New Hampshire’s Carroll County, a Republican bastion where Romney has a lakeside vacation estate in the town of Wolfeboro. Burnett, Romney’s 2008 New Hampshire political director, says he is not committed to supporting the candidate this time and will stay on the sidelines indefinitely. Staying incognito is important to the Romneys here and the locals seem to respect that. KarenBaker, who owns The Country Bookstore, knows he has been in her shop, but he slipped out beforeshe realized who he was. Despite the fact he's a Democrat, Paul Jenne, a Massachusetts native who owns a small store in towncalled Flags Over Winnipesaukee said he'd have the White House effect on Wolfeboro.
In 2004, who would have predicted that we would switch from republicans controlling in the White House, house and senate to the reverse in 4 years? I agree it is a huge hill to climb, but the democrats are doing all they can to wreck the economy and as one political person put it, “its the economy stupid”. Maggie O’Reilly, who has lived in Wolfeboro since 1994, echoes that sentiment. “They’re really just part of the crowd when they’re here,” she said. O'Reilly and her husband have spotted the Romneys at bandstand summer concerts and the local hardware store.
McCain’s troops kept pressing until the end that Romney could not be trusted to remain true to conservative tenets. Some Romney loyalists believe their candidate’s intense focus on winning the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses blinded him to the increasing tightness of the race in New Hampshire, where McCain, whose cash-starved campaign had seemingly imploded, was surging. “He’s formidable and it’s his race to lose, but I’ve told them — I see no path for Mitt Romney if he cannot win New Hampshire,” political consultant Jamie Burnett says. To his New Hampshire skeptics, he looks like the most vulnerable of front-runners, despite a Washington Post-ABC News poll that says he is running even with President Obama.
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