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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses an audience during a campaign stop on the campus of Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wis., Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Mitt Romney campaigns as a winner in Wisconsin

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 3:45pm

APPLETON, Wis. - Mitt Romney opened his campaign Friday for Wisconsin’s Republican presidential primary as though victory were a foregone conclusion.

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Romney adopts Southern twang, samples catfish in Deep South

Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 3:51pm

MOBILE, Ala. -- First it was grits. Now it's catfish.

On the eve of the Mississippi and Alabama primaries, Mitt Romney showed how far he would go to bond with Southerners who might feel something less than a natural kinship with the famously stiff New England investment titan.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and his wife Ann greet supporters as they arrive at their Super Tuesday primary night rally in Boston, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Romney not connecting in rural, religious South

Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 10:26am

ONEONTA, Ala. -- Randy Underwood cringed at the mention of Mitt Romney's name.

Underwood, who lives in this small town in rural Blount County, a religious-right stronghold in the rolling hills of northern Alabama, would prefer Romney over President Barack Obama.

But Romney's life in the rarefied world of the super wealthy is a long way from anything familiar to Underwood -- or to anyone else shopping the other day at Oneonta's Hometown Market.

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Romney's challenge: Be more than the anti-Obama

Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:17pm

ATLANTA -- Day after day, Mitt Romney sketches a bleak portrait of America under President Barack Obama and vows to dismantle his programs. Romney would undo Obama's health care overhaul, scrap Obama's plan to scale back the military and lift Obama's restraints on banks and Wall Street investment firms -- to name a few.

But apart from casting himself as an all-around anti-Obama, Romney has offered scant evidence of a distinct positive message to capture his vision for leading the country.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Romney's new offensive blames Gingrich, Santorum for GOP failings

Michael Finnegan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:07am

ATLANTA -- A day after his defeats in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota, Mitt Romney pounded Republican presidential rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on Wednesday as big-spending Washington insiders whose careers show scant evidence of fiscal restraint.

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