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February 24, 2012

Mitt Romney's "Gotcha" Campaign

Epstein & Abrahamson, Politico


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Caught in a make-or-break moment, Mitt Romney went to the videotape.

To hear him tell it, the GOP front-runner clicked on a classic piece of opposition research for a peek. The six-day-old Fox News clip summed up the day’s attacks on Rick Santorum.

“Senator, I just saw a YouTube clip of you being interviewed where you said that you personally opposed contraceptives but that you, you said that you voted for Title X” — the federal family planning program, Romney told Santorum during Wednesday night’s CNN debate in Arizona. “You said this, you said this in a positive light, ‘I voted for Title X.’”

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