Romney fights to avoid home-state embarrassment

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mitt Rom­ney hoped to avoid an embar­rass­ing home-state loss in Tuesday’s Michi­gan pri­mary but blamed his dif­fi­culty attract­ing needed sup­port from the state’s con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­cans on his unwill­ing­ness “to light my hair on fire” to get their votes.