How Mitt Romney Sees The United States (INTERACTIVE)

Over the course of the 2012 campaign, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has proven himself a master of a routine political tactic: the pander.

The former Massachusetts governor has massaged his skills, catering to specific regions and groups of constituents. As the primary transitions to the general election, the map below reflects an interpretation of Romney's vision of the United States. While the representation is largely satirical, click on filled-in tiles to hear how Romney has previously pandered on the trail during the campaign. Or click on the larger picture, if you dare.

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Comments

[Ralph Boyd]

09:52 PM on 04/22/2012

The Republicans crashed the economy in 2007 and have spent every momement since sabotaging economic recovery for politics.

All Republicans out of government in 2012.

[Robert A Hayes]

04:12 PM on 04/20/2012

now the gloves come off... and alas! ..he is all thumbs

[itcounts]

02:52 PM on 04/20/2012

Hows that dressage horse doing this weekend Mitt?

[Allosaur2010]

04:32 PM on 04/20/2012

Geez - is he abusing horses now?

[ibwilliamsi]

11:53 AM on 04/23/2012

What happens in Romneyland stays in Romneyland. After all, he owns Romneyland.

[vicla1942]

11:40 AM on 04/20/2012

Wait till they get the Keystone pipeline that southern politicans have been clamoring for.
The cancer rates in the southern states will go sky high.See Cornell university study on
effects of Keystone pipeline.

[bronncohowie]

11:25 AM on 04/20/2012

Biggest LIARS in history: Adolph Hitler, G.W.Bush, Willard Romney, Pope Rick Santorum, The Newt Gingrich. Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, John Boner, Ronald Reagan.

[benjaminblue]

07:06 PM on 04/20/2012

Plus Dick Cheney (and his family), Eric Cantor, Condoleeza Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzalez, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Sarah Palin...

[WhatWhat1]

03:29 PM on 04/27/2012

Can't count out Uncle Bill Clinton!

[bronncohowie]

04:23 PM on 04/27/2012

Guess I should add YOU also.

[sixtwenty3dc]

10:33 AM on 04/20/2012

wow could you guys spend more than 5 minutes creating this?
Graphics (awful): F
Legibility: F
Interactivity: (Broken): F
No by-line (no credit, and I can't berate the author in private): F

[USAGramma]

09:33 PM on 04/20/2012

F F F Fail comment

[susanbsbi]

09:37 AM on 04/20/2012

Romney sum up his election - It's my turn , i desire the white house.

[teacherpat52]

08:10 PM on 04/20/2012

And, since all my party really wants is Obama out, they will do their best to buy it for me.

[jamesvjj]

09:09 AM on 04/20/2012

Does anyone else feel that Huffingtonpost is pro obama and con Romney?

[westend1]

09:37 AM on 04/20/2012

the huffer and puffers are basically a liberal outlet.. Unfortuately they get to select what comments are posted

[Grunty1]

09:44 AM on 04/20/2012

And yet, your inane posts continue to make it through. However, if someone tried to post a word of dissent on a right-wing site, their account quickly gets banned.

Just another example of the constant use of projection from the Rushpublicans.

[ibwilliamsi]

11:57 AM on 04/23/2012

Yet somehow yours got through. As well as the "Trayvon Martin was a little criminal who got what was coming to him, anyway" posts.

[Grunty1]

09:45 AM on 04/20/2012

Does it claim to be anything else, unlike Faux News which claims to be "Fair"?

[teacherpat52]

08:17 PM on 04/20/2012

Recently, on The Colbert Report, Arianna Huffington replied to Colbert's "jibe" that HP was the left vs the right: "no, it is about the right vs the wrong". Brilliant comeback (by you G1 and her)!

[Hillbilly49]

08:41 AM on 04/20/2012

Etch 'A' Sketch Willard, would make a scary and incompetent.

[westend1]

09:28 AM on 04/20/2012

lets have a community organizer with no budget plans whatsoever

[Mr Logician]

09:41 AM on 04/20/2012

What’s so bad about community organizing?

and the budget line is not true.

[Grunty1]

09:44 AM on 04/20/2012

Rmoney: "If I told people my plans, I would never get elected"

[farmilyman]

08:16 AM on 04/20/2012

Mitt needs to produce his birth certificate or be deported back to Mexico.

[highercalling]

08:13 AM on 04/20/2012

How Romney sees the USA is irrelevant, How I see Romney is much more telling. Romney's campaign strategy has always been painfully obvious: run to the hard right during the primaries; persuade the Republican base that he no longer holds any of the beliefs he used to embrace; lock up the nomination; then shake the Etch A Sketch and move towards the American mainstream. Lie, deceive, deny and pretend.

[marta76]

07:10 AM on 04/20/2012

Gov. Rhodes of Ohio once said "Watching George Romney run for the presidency is like watching a duck trying to make love to a football"....The apple sure didn't fall far from the tree.

[nothingchanges]

07:07 AM on 04/20/2012

HOW MITT SEES THE U.S.

That's an easy one.

Mitt looks right............no one there.

Mitt looks left.............no one there.

Mitt looks up.............on one there.

Mitt looks down..............................oh there you are America.

[donaldaq63]

05:25 AM on 04/20/2012

He's so deep into the bubble that he's dying of asphyxia.

[westend1]

09:38 AM on 04/20/2012

ANd obama is in so deep he has the bends, etc

[Grunty1]

09:46 AM on 04/20/2012

I agree, Obama is bringing us from the depths too quickly ;-)

That's what you get for not knowing what the "bends" means.

[summerlin south]

04:39 AM on 04/20/2012

I read Audacity of Hope before the '08 election, but I have always been a dyed in the wool Democrat ready to vote for President Obama from the beginning.

His amazing ability to tell the story of our American political system should have enlightened enough people back then, that he would govern as a moderate but progressive Democratic president. I never had any illusions about him, or that he would try to seek consensus as a politician, but I think he has gotten the learning curve just about right. He finally learned that when their is no one on the other side of the aisle to make compromises with, its time to quit beating your head against the wall, and step out and pave your own way forward. His compassion as a human being came across so sincerely and truthfully in his writing. I'm really looking forward to him in office for another 4 years.

[ladyrosedeky]

05:53 AM on 04/20/2012

If you haven't read it, check out 'Back to Work' by Clinton. Once you get past the self-grandizing ideology at the beginning, it's an interesting read with a lot of good ideas and proposals.

[summerlin south]

06:51 AM on 04/20/2012

Thank you,I will look for it.

[salgrass]

09:00 AM on 04/20/2012

Same here, as far as I am concerned no multimillion dollar ad or robo call will change my mind. Obama 2012