Mitt Romney Hasn’t Answered A Question From A Voter In Three Weeks [View all]

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That headline is from a Mediaite article

http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-mitt-romney-hasnt-answered-a-question-from-a-voter-in-three-weeks/

commenting on and adding to this Washington Post article:

On campaign trail, Romney skips questions in taking up mantle of likely GOP nominee

LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney answered his last question from a voter three weeks ago, and just about every day since then, he has swept through towns across America like a whistling train conductor proclaiming, “All aboard.”

Out are 55-minute town hall meetings. In are 15-minute stump speeches at buffed-up rallies. There are rope lines and hot lights, giant flags and Secret Service agents with wires in their ears. The objective: appear presidential, avoid gaffes and convince Republicans that they have no reasonable option left but to rally around Romney’s winning candidacy.

That was the image he presented here Saturday night with his Nevada caucus victory speech. Hundreds of adoring supporters waved “Nevada Believes” signs as the candidate assailed President Obama. Yet the music playing as soon as Romney finished speaking — “A Little Less Conversation” by Elvis Presley — underscored his new don’t-ask-questions-just- get-on-board mantra.

As Romney solidified his front-runner status with back-to-back decisive wins in Florida and Nevada, his confidence — and caution — have been on stark display. He has pivoted from a retail campaign based on convincing people at his events that he has a command of the issues to a made-for-television spectacle where the people are simply props helping project an aura of momentum and inevitability to a national audience.

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Mediaite has a list of all his events the last few weeks:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-mitt-romney-hasnt-answered-a-question-from-a-voter-in-three-weeks/

There are town hall meetings listed there, but it was John McCain holding the pro-Romney town halls.

The WaPo article quotes a Romney adviser who requested anonymity (understandably):

"You’re safe, you’re steady, you don’t put your candidate in a place where there could be any kind of a pitfall, you stick with the themes that have worked with you so far until you see reason to change them — and I don’t see any reason."

You don’t put your candidate in a place where there could be any kind of a pitfall...

One of the authors of the new biography of Mitt Romney said on "Face the Nation" that Romney grew up in a "series of bubbles":

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57371677/biographer-mitt-grew-up-in-series-of-bubbles/

It's more and more obvious that his advisers feel he still has to be kept in one.