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Joan Vennochi

Mitt Romney’s family card

By Joan Vennochi

 |  Globe Columnist  

  December 11, 2011

Mitt Romney’s family is back to playing a starring role in his campaign, as Romney tries to lure Iowa voters with this pitch: “My family is better than Newt Gingrich’s family.’’ Romney’s latest effort comes via an ad that features his wife and children to illustrate his contention that he’s a man of constancy. But up until recently, Team Romney was telling the press the Romney clan would be less visible than it was in 2008. Then Gingrich surged.

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