Much like Mitt Romney in the 2012 election cycle, he'll need to try recasting his more elite experiences into
a cohesive national agenda with a strong populist appeal, political experts say.
First there is the importance of a «
national»
agenda as
cohesive glue and thus justification of a campaign for statehood in the conventional sense of territorial cohesiveness, along with a differentiation between urban and non-urban variations of that
agenda, with the leading cities developing a dual identity, strategy.