and "the boston globe's" neil swidey. first up, even with his bad last two weeks, full of slipups and slowed momentum, mitt romney still looks like the heavy republican favorite. that means he's got a 50-50 shot to win the white house this november. but a "new york times" poll shows that half of the voters don't know mitt romney well enough to support or oppose him. who is he? today, we look at romney's motivations, for running. and his personality. first, let's look at these three possible motivations for mitt's run. his father, george romney, ran himself in 1968. but dropped out when he slipped and said he had been brainwashed by the generals in a visit to vietnam. second, is mitt romney driven by ideology or philosophy? and third, did he have a big career in business to build a life for himself? or was it also always a foundation for politics? neil swidey, you're on the spot. you've covered him for years for the globe. let's get to some basics here. i grew up knowing a lot of us here with george romney who ran for pres