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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 10:13 AM Apr 2012

That's not an earthquake you're feeling - that's just Mitt reshaking his etch-a-sketch...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/romneys-etch-a-sketch-campaign-begins_n_1449581.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/romneys-etch-a-sketch-campaign-begins.html\\Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 and Latinos. In what is probably not a coincidence, these two constituencies are the targets for the first two major Mitt Romney Etch A Sketch pivots of the general election. After having repeatedly denounced any need for the federal government to subsidize tuition costs during the primary, Romney has now endorsed Obama’s call for extending lower rates for federally-subsidized loans. Romney says he supports the measures “in part because of the extraordinarily poor conditions in the job market.” Apparently, he has been informed of the poor job market since wrapping up the nomination, when he was still advising graduates concerned about debt to acquire a high-paying job.

On immigration, Romney is making the turn a little more slowly, as you’d expect, given the sensitivities involved in holding together his base. Romney has deputized Marco Rubio to craft “his” own version of the Dream Act, a somewhat more restrictive version of the reform that Republicans in Congress killed and Romney opposed in the primary, when he positioned himself on the party’s right on immigration. Romney is “studying” Rubio’s bill
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That's not an earthquake you're feeling - that's just Mitt reshaking his etch-a-sketch... (Original Post) LynneSin Apr 2012 OP
Last night rwork Apr 2012 #1
perhaps by finding a way for them to pick up a 3rd job LynneSin Apr 2012 #2
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