SUMMARY

Article by Joe Klein, March 19, 2012, from Time.com/swampland

Title: How Romney Can Win.

This article pits President Obama against Romney stating various things that can happen to make Romney win the election to the White House. If events in the world conspire against Obama, such as a terrorist attack, or the tanking or stalling of the economy, then Romney will have an upper hand if he has a real argument to sway enough independent voters.  Although Romney offered a foolish 20%  supply side tax cut during his campaign which placed him on the side of bleeding the treasury to aggrandize the wealthy, and also took a strong stand against illegal immigration which has alienated Hispanic voters, the author is sceptical if he might have a chance. He will have to show himself as a reformer and he will have to back it up with strong arguments. Mit Romney who is a Caddy-collecting , employee-firing rich guy, would also need to portray himself as the penny pinching guy who hates waste. Finally, he would have to create some distance between himself and wall street by breaking up the too-big-to-fail banks.


vocabulary.
1) aggrandize: to make great or greater

2) federal slovenliness: negligence, carelessness.

3) feckless Caddy-collecting: careless, unthinking and irresponsible Cadilac collector.