When Even Romney Loses the Auto Executives...
Presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sits in the Chrysler Eco-Voyager concept car as he tours the show floor at at the North American International Auto show at Cobo Center January 14, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan (Bryan Mitchell / Getty Images)
Courtesy of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, I joined a political panel today at the Adcraft Club of Detroit, a group unsurprisingly dominated by auto industry marketing people. Time was, when there was nobody more Republican than a Detroit auto executive. If my lunch table is representative—wow, is that no longer true. They may think President Obama is too liberal, but they have zero tolerance for Romney's "managed bankruptcy" approach.
Mitt Romney should win the Michigan primary tomorrow, with votes from higher-income Republicans who regard Santorum as too out there. But a win won't be the same as an indicator of general-election popularity. Next question: how auto-dependent is Ohio these days?
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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