Ruth Marcus: Striking similarities between Romney, Obama

 
BY RUTH MARCUS
Published: February 8, 2012

WASHINGTON — The general election is shaping up as a contest between two remarkably similar men.

Not ideologically. Despite the Newt Gingrich -peddled notion that “there really is no difference” between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama , the gulf in political philosophy is enormous.

Both men, left to their own devices, would occupy a centrist place within their own parties. But Obama envisions a far...


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