To assure the donors that he and his campaign knew what they were doing, US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boasted during a private fundraiser about the consultants he had retained, emphasizing that his consultants are conducting election campaigns in several countries, including Armenia, Mother Jones website reports. 

“I have a very good team of extraordinarily experienced, highly successful consultants, a couple of people in particular who have done races around the world. I didn’t realize it. These guys in the US—the Karl Rove equivalents—they do races all over the world: in Armenia, in Africa, in Israel. I mean, they work for Bibi Netanyahu in his race. So they do these races and they see which ads work, and which processes work best, and we have ideas about what we do over the course of the campaign,” Romney stated during the fundraiser.

To note, the US presidential elections will be conducted on November 6, 2012.