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Romney creates history in clinching Republican nomination
Wednesday May 30, 2012 05:28:56 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: Mitt
Romney created history as he finally clinched the Republican
nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the November
presidential, becoming the first Mormon nominee from a major
political party.
Romney's historic feat came nearly 200 years after the founding of
Mormonism by Joseph Smith, who himself ran for president to call
attention to his flock's persecution.
The Mormon Church has six million members in the United States.
Mormons self-identify as Christian as a religious and cultural
group though they have stricter social and lifestyle codes,
including eschewing alcohol and other beverages, and some of their
beliefs differ from mainstream Christianity.
Former Massachusetts governor Romney succeeded where his father,
George, and others, including Senators Orrin Hatch and Mo Udall,
did not.
Mitt Romney who lost the Republican nomination to John McCain in
2008 is also the third presidential nominee from Massachusetts in
the last quarter century, joining Democrats Michael Dukakis in
1988 and John Kerry in 2004.
The last Republican nominee from Massachusetts was Calvin
Coolidge, in 1924.
Romney, who led the pack when he announced his second run for the
White House last June, got the required 1,144 delegates for the
Republican nomination with a win Tuesday in Texas, the lone state
to vote this week.
Romney entered the presidential primary in Texas, where 152 of the
state's 155 delegates were at stake, with just 78 delegates away
from the magic number.
"Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures
of the last three and a half years behind us," Romney said in a
statement after the win.
"I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us.
But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less
than getting America back on the path to full employment and
prosperity."
Romney has been the presumptive nominee since his top rival,
former senator Rick Santorum, dropped out in April. Newt Gingrich,
the former House speaker, quit the race earlier this month and
Representative Ron Paul has said he would no longer actively
campaign, even in his home state of Texas.
Romney won't become the official nominee until the end of August,
when Republicans hold their convention in Tampa, Florida.
President Barack Obama faced no national competition for the
Democratic presidential nomination, and CNN projected he
accumulated the 2,778 necessary delegates on April 3.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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