Some good news for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: he is now leading again in MIchigan, the state where he spent most of his childhoold and where his father was governor. If Romney loses there it will a huge blow to him and probably spark an abandon ship on the part of at least some establishment Republicans. But a Mitchell/Rosetta Stone Poll now has him at 32%, two points ahead of his closest rival, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum, who had been surging in recent days.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.