Maybe he's just got Iowa on the brain. After his drubbing in the Ames Straw Poll -- coming behind even non-declared, non-candidate Sarah Palin, fer cryin' out loud -- Mitt Romney has to be feeling some pain. And you know, candidatin' is hard
August 15, 2011

Maybe he's just got Iowa on the brain. After his drubbing in the Ames Straw Poll -- coming behind even non-declared, non-candidate Sarah Palin, fer cryin' out loud -- Mitt Romney has to be feeling some pain. And you know, candidatin' is hard work. Shaking hands and pretending to care about the little people takes a toll on you.

So perhaps it's understandable that Mitt Romney just doesn't know where the hell he is:

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ran into this problem when campaigning in Manchester on Friday, speaking at a town hall sponsored by the Granite Oath PAC. A tracker for the Democratic independent expenditure group American Bridge 21st Century caught Romney confusing the Granite State with the Hawkeye State (emphasis added):

I had Arnold Schwarzenegger come to my state and try to poach jobs from my state. I thought, "How in the world could he do this to a fellow Republican?" He put billboards up! With him on the billboard. And it said, you know, he was in a T-shirt there and it says "Come to California." So what do you think, I put billboards up in his state. And, uh, it had me in a T-shirt, flexing my muscles. And it said, "Smaller muscles, but much lower taxes. Come to Massachusetts." You guys are supposed to do that here in Iowa. I wouldn’t be able to compete in that case. Zero tax rate is pretty darn good.

Manchester is in New Hampshire, not Iowa.

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