Mitt Romney's road to the Republican nomination

April 11, 2011: Romney launches exploratory committee

In a web video, the former Massachusetts governor announced the establishment of a presidential exploratory committee, which marks the first significant step for any potential candidate. The video features Romney speaking directly into the camera at the University of New Hampshire and focuses largely on the state of the economy.

"This morning I spoke with a number of students here at the University of New Hampshire," Romney says in the video. "Like young people all over the country, they wonder whether they'll find good jobs when they graduate. Last week, in Nevada, I walked through a neighborhood with homes vacant or in foreclosure. Unemployment there is over 13 percent. Across the nation, over 20 million Americans still can't find a job, or have given up looking."

Romney says in the video that President Obama is to blame since the president and most of his advisers haven't worked in the private sector. "They just don't know how jobs are created," he says.

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lami987 says:: It just shows republicans are so out of touch with common sense. They are even proud of a person who did every thing he could to avoid paying taxes, cannibolize instead of save U.S. companies, sent U.S. manufacturing abroad and outsource U.S. jobs then hide his money in tax havens and refused to make public years of tax returns that all other presidential candidates did. He was a high school bully and paid his domestic helps peanuts. Two reasons our economy can't recover as fast as we want is because we have too many Romney wannabes and too many republican politicians in congress.; reply

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sjc_1 says:: GOP conventions are just dog and pony shows now. The nominee is picked, the VP is picked, they have stated positions, so what is left? They try to get air time for free and a few days of their propaganda, that is all.; reply