Romney Keeps Focus On Pocketbook Issues
ELKO, NEV. -- Over the past few days, Mitt Romney has focused less on attacking his GOP rivals, instead concentrating on his message of fiscal conservatism and economic revitalization.
"Some Democrats have the idea that the economy just sort of happens—that businesses are there making money and paying people and they'll always be there," Romney said to a crowd of about 250 people at a middle school gym here. "They don't recognize that it's important for us to keep the economy strong and that to have families that have good jobs and to have a military that's robust and capable, you have to have a strong economy at the base."
Romney is set to lay out his economic stimulus proposal over the next couple of days, and his optimistic outlook on the economy and business background seems to have struck a chord with Nevada voters. The states caucuses will be held tomorrow, and Romney leads in recent polls.
"He's concerned about not spending all of our money on things that we don't necessarily need the government to do," Lynatt Snyder, a Romney support from Elko, told CBS News.
Dale Johnson, also from Elko, said that he admired the way Romney seems to have a firm grasp on business and the way the economy works. And as other Republican candidates barnstorm across South Carolina, Romney's personal visit to this isolated Nevada town seems to have paid dividends.
"It's nice to see somebody who cares about this little local, rural community," Johnson said.