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Tea Party voters more open to Romney

By Matt Viser

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 05, 2012

Tea Party activists, long dismissive of Mitt Romney, insist most of the movement’s legions will back him if he continues to surge toward nomination, with a few already urging Republicans of all kinds to unite now to defeat President Obama. The slowly building shift in outlook on Romney is by no means monolithic or set in stone, yet previously anti-Romney groups are beginning to prepare their members to embrace the former Massachusetts governor as their best shot at defeating an incumbent president they distrust even more.

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