Romney courts Hispanic vote in Florida

While other Republican presidential contenders focus their campaigns almost exclusively on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – the first three states to choose a nominee – Mitt Romney spent Tuesday courting Hispanic voters in Miami and Tampa.

“You probably did not know that my dad was not born in this country – he was born in Mexico,” Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, told a largely Hispanic crowd in a Miami grocery warehouse. “And at age 5- or 6-years-old, because of revolution in Mexico, my dad’s dad came back to the United States and began a construction business.”