Mitt Romney is one of the candidates currently running for the Republican nomination and one thing that is candidacy has a lot of people asking is whether or not the government can be run like a private business.
Governments, due to the nature of the fact that the people that run them are put there by the will of the people, are always going to be slower to act than private corporations. This is a point of ridicule on the part of conservative-minded people who feel that the market can deliver any service better than the government simply because of the lack of consensus-building needed to push things through in private corporations. Romney, having been a successful CEO in the private sector, knows this very well.
Whether he will be able to use that same expertise to make government work better however, is something else entirely. The polls at www.USAElectionPolls.com is monitoring his progress in the election.
Romney's candidacy got a major boost at the Iowa Straw Poll, but at the same time has been falling behind the candidacies of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain in the overall polling for the election. The straw poll results could be argued to be more about Romney having campaigned to win that straw poll rather than anything more definitive regarding the election, but his strong point at the moment is that he was the Republican Governor of a typically Democratic state; something that could end up convincing a lot of Democrats to vote for him in a potential general election against some of the potential Democratic candidates.
