"“Our fundraising will be a knockout blow to anyone who is squeamish,” said one Romney fundraiser, speaking of potential Republican challengers still flirting with a race by early summer. Mr. Romney’s money machine raised a little more than $60 million in the primary campaign of 2008, according to finance records."He said all the Republican candidates have flaws, his being the Massachusetts health care law, which in many ways was a model for the president’s national health care law. But he produced a slide contrasting what he called high favorability ratings in early primary states to high unfavorable ratings of some opponents. The south would be tough for him, especially if Barbour entered the race, he said. But the delegate counts in Ohio, New York and California would swamp Southern concerns.
Mr. Romney said the new Republican primary system, in which delegates are awarded proportionately to primary showings rather than in the traditional winner-take-all fashion, would favor the well-organized, well-financed campaigns like his own.
Romney’s Ask: Raise $50 Million
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