There’s a reason her nickname is “Debbie Downer.”
(The Hill) — The chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sought to slow Mitt Romney’s momentum as the winner of the Iowa caucuses, the first vote of the 2012 primary season.
“When is a win a loss? It’s a loss when you’re Mitt Romney, and you spent the most and only beat the guy who spent the least in the state by 8 votes,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said on CNN. She also pointed out that Romney won less votes in Iowa in 2012 than he did when he lost the state’s caucus vote to Mike Huckabee in 2008.
Romney won the caucus vote by just 8 votes, in a virtual tie with Rick Santorum who had struggled in the single digits in polls until last week.
“Mitt Romney has come out limping from Iowa into New Hampshire,” she said.
Her counterpart at the Republican National Committee also appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning to laugh off the idea that winning can equal losing. RNC Chair Reince Priebus accepted the Iowa caucus results as a win for GOP enthusiasm heading into the election year.
“There’s no bad news here at all. It’s all good news,” Priebus said later on CNN.