The Boston Herald is reporting that ground teams from the Democratic National Committee are landing in Iowa to work outside of Romney events and try to raise the opposition against his growing support.  Is there any better reason to VOTE for Romney?  Democratic strategists do not want Barack Obama to have to take the debate stage against Mitt Romney, someone who actually understands the economy!

Iowa voters committed in their hearts to Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or even Ron Paul, should ask themselves, “Why don’t the Democrats care about MY candidate?”

Here’s are the details from the Boston Herald:

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is fending off attacks from national Democrats who are traveling across the state today to blast him outside his own events on the eve of tomorrow’s GOP caucuses.

“I think people are starting to figure out that this is the guy that’s going to beat Barack Obama,” said wife Ann Romney about the growing focus on her husband.

Ann Romney

National Democratic Party officials dive-bombed Romney, who is in Davenport for a grassroots rally, setting up a press conference outside the event with an Indiana worker who was laid off in the 1990s after his company was purchased by Bain.

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz also planned a press conference in Florida focusing solely on Romney and his “attempts to rewrite history, distract voters from his out of touch positions and support for failed policies that won’t help the middle class.”

Romney strategist Eric Fehrnstrom said the criticism proves Obama is running scared.

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“Obama and the DNC are terrified of Mitt Romney. … That’s why they spend so much time attacking Mitt,” said Fehrnstrom. “Republican primary voters are looking for two things in their nominee. One who can fix this economy and secondly because they sense that this president’s vulnerable, they want someone who can beat him.”

Romney, who is facing a fresh challenge from former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, kept his focus on Obama, saying he never delivered on his many promises to restore the country.

“I haven’t seen such a big gap between promises and performance in a long, long time,” said Romney to a crowd of roughly 100 at his first early morning grassroots rally.

The attacks come even as a new Public Policy Polling poll showed the top-tier candidates essentially tied in Iowa, with Texas Congressman Ron Paul at 20 percent, followed by Romney with 19 percent, and a fast-rising Santorum with 18 percent.

“I sense a lot of enthusiasm. People in Iowa are very thoughtful and I think they’re starting to think long and hard about who can actually win,” said South Dakota Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune after stumping for Romney at a grassroots rally here. “I think that’s why you’re starting to see people come Gov. Romney’s way.”

Davenport voter Todd Dodge, 49, who lived in New Bedford and Woods Hole in the early ’90s while he was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, said it’s not hard to understand why Romney is a target.

“They think he’s the competition. He’s been the steady runner in the polls. True and steady is the right course,” said Dodge, who has been a Romney supporter since 2008.

New Hampshire Looking Good For Romney...Could Mean A Sweep

Meanwhile, Romney has opened up an enormous lead in New Hampshire according to a new poll by Magellan Strategies. Romney nabbed 41 percent in that poll, with Paul taking the runner-up spot with 21 percent of the vote.

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Jan 2, 2012