“Mitt Romney, his friends often say, is a private man in a public world. But with just one month left until the election, he has calculated that to win the presidency he must do what for years he has been loath to: share intimate stories about his life,” the Washington Post reports.
“So, as the sun set on his rally here Friday night, the Republican nominee, buoyed by his successful turn on the debate stage, for the first time publicly related emotionally powerful anecdotes. Romney told of ministering to the needy in his Mormon church, including a 14-year-old who was dying of leukemia and summoned ‘Brother Romney’ to his bedside. He also spoke of an old friend who ended up a quadriplegic after an accident and came to see Romney recently, the day before he died.”
New York Times: “An adviser said that Mr. Romney decided on his own that he wanted to
tell those stories onstage. But the move was also couched in a broader
campaign strategy to encourage Mr. Romney to reveal a more caring,
personal side of himself, a counter to his reputation as a data-driven
technocrat.”
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