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Article: A Changed Man; Mitt Romney's Ideological Turnabout Has Critics Wondering: Who Is This Guy?
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- The Washington Post
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- October 10, 2007
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Like every great sales pitch, Mitt Romney's case for Mitt Romney
is low on the hard sell.
At the Sheraton Hotel here one recent morning, the boasting is
handled by a former governor of South Carolina, who opens this "Ask
Mitt Anything" session with a precis of the candidate's career. This
includes academic achievements (Harvard Law School and Harvard
Business School "in four years!") and election as governor of
Massachusetts in 2002, which is described in a tone befitting a
miracle.
"He ran for governor in the bluest state of all blue states,"
says James Edwards, "the bluest state you can think of, as a
conservative Republican, and he won 51 percent of the vote in a four-
way race without a ...