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Mitt Romney Moderates Tone, Promotes Bipartisanship

Mitt Romney revved up a crowd estimated at fifteen thousand people in a football field in Tampa's northern suburbs Saturday night. There, he implored the crowd to get o

ut and vote. Governor Romney also struck a note of bipartisanship, saying he'd work better with Congress than President Obama has.
"When I become president, I'm going to meet regularly with Democratic leaders and Republican leaders, talk about our challenges, look for places there's common ground", said Romney. "Because it's just too critical for us to keep going down the same path."

Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, will keep the focus on Florida with three stops in Florida today He'll be in Jacksonville in the morning, Melbourne in the afternoon and Lakeland tonight.

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