Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 12, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 13:05, 7 March 2014‎ (UTC)



Mitt Romney (born 1947) is an American businessman who was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by his parents Lenore and George Romney, and spent two years in France as a Mormon missionary. He married Ann Davies in 1969, with whom he has had five children. After studying at Brigham Young and Harvard universities, he joined the management consultancy Bain & Company before co-founding the spin-off investment firm Bain Capital. He unsuccessfully ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 Massachusetts election for Senate against Ted Kennedy. He relaunched his political career after successfully running the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he helped enact state health care reform legislation, the first of its kind in America. Romney won the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, becoming the first Mormon to be a major party presidential nominee, but lost the election to Barack Obama by a 332–206 electoral college margin and by 51–47 percent in the popular vote. At least 2 points, birthday and 1 year old FAC. 1,200 characters exactly. buffbills7701 23:17, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The man I wish were president. I Support here as well. Sorry to ruin your perfect 1,200...don't know if we need a "(pictured)" for another 11 characters :) (I think it just would look awkward after the date parenthetical...after trying it). --ColonelHenry (talk) 23:26, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
 * We don't need "pictured" when the image is of the subject (nor does TFA use full names either, Buffbills - "Mitt Romney" it is). 4 points at present as the article is widely covered. Tweaked blurb more generally, now at 1,173 characters. BencherliteTalk 00:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Adding "spin-off", now 1,182. buffbills7701 01:25, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 8 deadlinks. BencherliteTalk 21:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support on the date - David Gerard (talk) 20:47, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment not often found here, but I'm just asking if this blizzard of blue is typical? Have no axe (or ax) to grind against Mr Romney, but the blurb is overwhelmed with links.  The Rambling Man (talk) 20:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support I do not support the blurb's abbreviation of his birth parenthetical to year only which obfuscates its date specific purpose?—John Cline (talk) 07:32, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That's what we always do with dates of birth and death, whether the article is being run on an anniversary of birth or death or not. BencherliteTalk 08:53, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That's an untenable argument for me! I can not see myself supporting the consequence; for process alone. It's simply counterintuitive to me; and certainly not a big deal either. I still support the nomination. And the publishers discretion; of course.—John Cline (talk) 11:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Support notable/broad. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:24, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support IF this run as a TFA i'll show that wikipedia isn't as liberal as most conservative think.--Jeffrd10 (talk) 13:33, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support on the date - notable. &mdash; Fr&epsilon;ckl&epsilon;fσσt