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| Mitt Romney fails Ohio audition for cheerleader-in-chief as chant fizzles | Mitt Romney fails Ohio audition for cheerleader-in-chief as chant fizzles |
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| Cheerleaders make good politicians. They get people excited about a home team victory. President George W Bush was a cheerleader at Phillips Academy Andover. Senate majority leader Trent Lott led cheers at Ole Miss. | |
| One politician who never picked up the pom-poms: Mitt Romney. There is no holding the fact against the man. It rather seems to burnish his presidential persona, never to have donned wristbands and hollered his head off about defense. | One politician who never picked up the pom-poms: Mitt Romney. There is no holding the fact against the man. It rather seems to burnish his presidential persona, never to have donned wristbands and hollered his head off about defense. |
| His innocence of the art of cheer hasn't helped Romney on the campaign trail, though, and at a rally on Tuesday in Vandalia, Ohio, it made for a distinctly uncheerful moment. When the crowd began to chant for his running mate, Paul Ryan, Romney tried to lead them in a different cheer – to no avail. | His innocence of the art of cheer hasn't helped Romney on the campaign trail, though, and at a rally on Tuesday in Vandalia, Ohio, it made for a distinctly uncheerful moment. When the crowd began to chant for his running mate, Paul Ryan, Romney tried to lead them in a different cheer – to no avail. |
| "Ryan, Ryan, Ryan," the crowd said. | "Ryan, Ryan, Ryan," the crowd said. |
| "Wait a sec, wait a sec, Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan, there we go," the nominee said. | "Wait a sec, wait a sec, Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan, Romney-Ryan, there we go," the nominee said. |
| He appeared to be ever so slightly exasperated. | He appeared to be ever so slightly exasperated. |