what position does mitt romney hold?
Governor of Massachusetts
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 Commentators noted McCotter 's lack of name recognition hindered his chances for nomination . When included in Republican presidential preference polls , he regularly received less than one percent support . Following a last place finish in the Ames Straw Poll and the lack of any invitation to presidential debates , he dropped his candidacy on September 22 , 2011 , and endorsed Mitt Romney . Thereafter , McCotter reportedly wrote a television pilot , which was released to the media prior to his resignation from Congress in July 2012 amid a fraud investigation surrounding his congressional re @-@ election campaign . 

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 Romney said that he would appoint federal judges in the mold of U.S. Supreme Court justices John Roberts , Clarence Thomas , Antonin Scalia , and Samuel Alito . He advocated judicial restraint and strict constructionism as judicial philosophies . 

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 Willard Mitt Romney ( " Mitt " ) ( born March 12 , 1947 ) is an American businessman and politician , who was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and the Republican Party 's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election . 

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 A month later , he was asked about his support for the Red Sox by one of the questioners in a YouTube Republican Presidential Debate run by CNN . In response to the mayor 's answer , former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney , who was in office during the Red Sox 2004 win , claimed that all Americans are united in hatred of the Yankees . 

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 Following Lafount 's death , George became chairman and president of American Motors Corporation and Governor of Michigan . He did indeed run for president in 1968 , but the campaign was unsuccessful , after which he became U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development . However , George 's son , Mitt Romney ( of whom Lafount is the maternal grandfather ) , became cofounder and CEO of Bain Capital , president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics , and Governor of Massachusetts , and was the nominee of the Republican Party in the 2012 U.S. presidential election . 
