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Clinton Urged Change in Attacks on Romney

April 23, 2012 at 8:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

For the last six months, Bill Clinton has argued that the Obama re-election campaign should stop attacking Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper, Politico reports.

“A more effective strategy, Clinton has told anyone who would listen, would be to focus almost exclusively on Romney’s description of himself as a ‘severe conservative,’ to deny him any chance to tack back to the center.”

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