Romney’s Russia Rhetoric May Backfire in Visit to Poland
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives in Poland today seeking to burnish his foreign policy standing and score points against President Barack Obama for his “abandonment” of eastern Europe.
While Polish relations with Obama have been bumpy, Romney’s attempts to play off Cold War fears in a former Soviet satellite and to connect with Americans of eastern European descent may not resonate in today’s Poland, analysts and scholars said.