AP’s Hunt: “On immigration, taxes and women’s issues, Mitt Romney is abandoning his ‘severely conservative’ talk of the Republican primary season and moving sharply to the political center as he looks to sway on-the-fence voters in the campaign’s final three weeks. At the same time, the GOP presidential nominee’s advisers and the Republican National Committee are looking to give Romney more routes to reaching the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory. They are weighing whether to shift resources from North Carolina, where Republicans express confidence of winning, into states long considered safe territory for President Barack Obama, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
The Boston Globe unpacks Romney’s “binders full of women” comment. Romney said he “went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’” But the Globe says, “Romney’s story isn’t entirely accurate. Those ‘binders full of women’ actually came from a coalition called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project, or MassGAP, that had formed in August 2002 to address the shortage of women in high-ranking government positions. They had started assembling groups of applicants, taking several months to reach out to women’s organizations around the state and preparing to present potential hires to whichever candidate won the election.”
