Voices
ELI
LEHRER
HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
Nixon’s
Lesson for
Romney
IF PRESIDENT OBAMA and Joe
Biden win in Massachusetts (certain) and Wisconsin (very likely),
the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket
could become the first major party presidential ticket in almost
a half century not to win either
member’s home state. Even after
the leak of a tape that made Rom-
ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX NABAUM
ney look out of touch (at best)
or downright callous (at worst),
hardly any leading pundits count
him out altogether. At any rate,
he’ll have a better chance of prevailing from his current underdog
position if it learns the lessons—
for good and for ill—from the last
Eli Lehrer is
preside nt
of the freemarket think
tank R Street