Article: MITT ROMNEY - ONE ON ONE BAY STATE'S GOVERNOR-ELECT TALKS ABOUT POLITICS, HIS GOALS, AND HIS DAD

BELMONT - For Mitt Romney, there was pleasing symmetry in Tuesday's victory.

The governor-elect is 55, the same age his father, George Romney, was when first elected governor of Michigan, which was, he points out, exactly 40 years ago. The elder Romney became Michigan's governor after spending the first part of his life in business, just as Mitt Romney has done.

But George Romney did not live to enjoy those coincidences. A tireless soldier in his son's unsuccessful 1994 US Senate run, he was not standing beside him as the red, white, and blue confetti rained down last week. And the younger Romney keenly felt the absence.

"I would have loved to have had my dad there," Romney said. "And I ...

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