chief washington correspondent for cnbc, nice to have you here. hey, rachel. how far can you go winning only voters at the top of the income chart and losing everybody else? it worked in ohio, and in michigan. can it work other places? well, it can t work nearly as well in the general election as it can in primaries, which as you mentioned are low participation exercises, in the 2008 general election people making over $100,000 a year were a quarter of the electorate. three quarts below that. so mitt romney does have the ability in primary states to maximize his appeal to that group and really make it count, and you explained it earlier in your a moment ago, rachel, the one of us issue. you have business, economic-oriented republicans who look at mitt romney, identify with him, see him as somebody like them with similar values, just as the way we all identify when we vote, whether it s by ethnicity or geography or personal background, and he s
for cnbc, nice to have you here. hey, rachel. how far can you go winning only voters at the top of the income chart and losing everybody else? it worked in ohio, and in michigan. can it work other places? well, it can t work nearly as well in the general election as it can in primaries, which as you mentioned are low participation exercises, in the 2008 general election people making over $100,000 a year were a quarter of the electorate. three quarts below that. so mitt romney does have the ability in primary states to maximize his appeal to that group and really make it count, and you explained it earlier in your a moment ago, rachel, the one of us issue. you have business, economic-oriented republicans who look at mitt romney, identify with him, see him as somebody like them with similar values, just as the way we all identify when we vote, whether it s by ethnicity or geography or personal background, and he s
for cnbc, nice to have you here. hey, rachel. how far can you go winning only voters at the top of the income chart and losing everybody else? it worked in ohio, and in michigan. can it work other places? well, it can t work nearly as well in the general election as it can in primaries, which as you mentioned are low participation exercises, in the 2008 general election people making over $100,000 a year were a quarter of the electorate. three quarts below that. so mitt romney does have the ability in primary states to maximize his appeal to that group and really make it count, and you explained it earlier in your a moment ago, rachel, the one of us issue. you have business, economic-oriented republicans who look at mitt romney, identify with him, see him as somebody like them with similar values, just as the way we all identify when we vote, whether it s by ethnicity or geography or personal background, and he s also taking a little bit of