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Those Who Know Him Love Romney Best

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets supporters at his Super Tuesday primary party in Boston, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The independent-minded Republican voters of Massachusetts stuck by their guy yesterday. And in the network exit polls, we got a glimpse of the voters who launched Mitt Romney's presidential hopes by electing him their governor.


They don't much like the mandatory health care law he signed into law. That is interesting. Some 48 percent of the voters in the GOP primary said that Romneycare went too far.

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