ORLANDO, Fla. – Listen to Republican voters and you’re likely to hear a reluctance to embrace Mitt Romney’s White House bid. At least at first.
The same voters just as readily acknowledge that he might be the Republicans’ best chance to defeat President Barack Obama. And that may explain why the former Massachusetts governor isn’t sweating even as the buzz revolves around others.
“I’ll probably wind up with Romney because, more than anything, what I want to do is to defeat Obama,” says Doyle Thomas, a 70-year-old retired attorney from rural Cross City, Fla.
Not that he’ll be happy about having to vote for the former Massachusetts governor.
“You can’t tell me that Romney is a conservative and was able to be elected in Massachusetts,” Thomas adds, shaking his head. “If he were a conservative, there’s no way he could have won.”
Interviews with more than two dozen Republicans who met here recently to hear
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