According to Walker allies, he's going to pursue exactly the opposite strategy Romney used in 2012. Whereas Romney started in the middle and moved rightward throughout primary season, Walker is starting on the right and will shift toward the middle.
"You start in Iowa and lock up conservatives, because if you don't do that, none of the rest matters," said one longtime Walker adviser, who requested anonymity to discuss campaign strategy. "It's much easier to move from being a conservative to being a middle-of-the-road moderate later on."
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National Journal
Good thing for the Walker campaign that the nice knitting ladies in rural Iowa presumably don't pay a lot of attention to national political magazines.
So, what do you think: Will Walker succeed in fooling the social-conservatives in Iowa and win the first state of the 2016 Republican primary (caucus) ? And will the transformation into a moderate go smoothly and be convincing to the Republican base?
And what is he really: social conservative, moderate or just cynical?