Mitt Romney le modéré est de retour

Tout un virage depuis les primaires républicaines... Un classique des campagnes électorales américaines. Une fois l'investiture assurée, on tente d'ajuster le message pour l'élection générale.

 "Romney didn’t backtrack on any specific proposals — he’s offered few to begin with — but he portrayed himself as more problem solver than ideological warrior. The result was an impressionistic move to the center without abandoning any of his primary positions that make independent and moderate voters queasy.

With Romney universally judged the debate’s victor, cheering conservatives proved that beating Obama is more important to them than any typical litmus test. It also helped that Democrats spent Thursday licking their wounds and muttering that President Barack Obama, whose team spent months painting Romney as a right-wing extremist, failed to puncture Romney’s newfound centrist veneer. Neither Obama nor moderator Jim Lehrer brought up Romney’s positions on a host of issues on which he’s moved to the right during his career, from abortion and women’s health to immigration to gay issues.

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