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Mitt Romney likely to recycle gubernatorial campaign strategy | Detroit Free Press | freep.com Don’t expect Mitt Romney to spend a lot of time trying to get voters to like him this fall. Mitt Romney adds former RNC chairman to campaign team – Political Intelligence – A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe – Boston.com Ed Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairman, has joined Mitt Romney’s campaign team, in one of the first signs that the GOP front-runner is widening his circle of advisers ahead of his anticipated general election run. Gillespie will not replace any existing Romney aides, the campaign said, but will serve as a volunteer strategist, counseling Romney on general-election messaging and Republican convention planning. Gillespie boasts a range of political experience, having worked as a campaign aide, White House adviser, and lobbyist. Bob Burnett: Inside the Mitt Mitt Romney is the perfect Republican candidate: a straight, religious, white man who is rich and can self-fund his campaign. And Romney shares a common Republican personality defect: he doesn't empathize with average Americans. Mitt Romney accuses President Obama of waging ‘hide and seek’ campaign – BostonHerald.com WASHINGTON – Before he took his campaign for the Republican nomination to the next primary battleground in Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney used the same Washington stage where President Obama had spoken a day before to accuse his likely general election rival of plans to wage a PolitiFact Florida | Mitt Romney pledged to protect oil companies’ tax breaks, ad says An ad from a pro-Obama super PAC portrays Mitt Romney and the oil industry as cozy pals pledging big bucks to help each other out. It's a response to a different super PAC ad that attacked President Obama's energy policies. "Who’s behind this ad smearing President Obama?," the pro-Obama ad says. "Big Oil, that’s who. The money they make from high gas prices is going right into Mitt Romney’s campaign. Big oil executives have pledged two hundred million to help him. "And Mitt Romney’s pledged to protect their record profits – and their billions in special tax breaks, too. These … Continue reading →