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Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney’s Closing Con Game

Mitt says he’s a uniter who will heal the divisions of the Obama years. Don’t believe it for a second.

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So one of Mitt Romney’s closing plays is that he’s the great conciliator. He released an ad several days ago and has been hitting the theme ever since, arguing that we need (as Romney said in the first debate, quoted in the ad) “leadership that … could not care less...

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