Romney 's Cross-Party Primary Vote In 1992

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/28/433689/romney-false-explanation-of-1992-primary-vote/

By Josh Israel on Feb 28, 2012 at 10:57 am

In 1992, Republican Mitt Romney voted in a Democratic primary, backing former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas for the Democratic presidential nomination. He said he did so because he wanted to “vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for the Republican.”

Romney is now railing against the Santorum campaign for trying to get traditional Democratic voters to cross-over and vote in the Republican primary. Romney has called this a “terrible dirty trick” and an “attempt to kidnap the primary process.”

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