Hoping the electorate have short memories, Mitt Tries to Etch a Sketch his way into the white house

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/appeal-swing-voters-romney-offers-more-centrist-message-133029754--election.html

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio—With less than a month to go before Election Day, Mitt Romney faces a choice between whipping up the support of his conservative base or appealing to swing voters who could be persuaded to back his bid for the presidency.

In recent days, Romney has chosen to focus on the latter, pushing a more centrist message on the campaign trail. His latest turn came Tuesday when he told the editorial board of the Des Moines Register that he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion.

"There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," Romney told the Register.
Afterwards, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul appeared to temper Romney's comment, telling National Review that Romney "would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life."

But the distinction appeared to be between whether Romney would advocate specific legislation or merely support a bill that came to his desk, if he were elected. Asked for clarification, Saul simply emailed a somewhat vague statement she had provided to other news organizations seeking comment.

"I will do everything in my power to draw on that greatness of the American people: to make us more united as a people, to have us pull together, to reach across the aisle and find good Democrats in the House and Senate that care deeply about America just as I do," Romney said at a rally in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Sunday.

It's a message that Romney is expected to push again and again in the coming weeks. Aides to the GOP candidate told Yahoo News his closing argument will include a heavy emphasis on his record as governor of Massachusetts—where, as he often reminds voters, he was a Republican in a heavily Democratic state.

That's a shift from Romney's message in February, when he told a gathering of Republican activists that he had been a "severely conservative" governor in Massachusetts."

But one major unknown is whether Romney will move to embrace the health care reform law he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts. It's legislation that is widely considered to be Romney's shining policy legacy but one he has distanced himself from as he has campaigned to repeal Obama's health care law, which was modeled after Romney's bill.

But Romney has softened his language there too, telling NBC News in an interview last month that his decision to champion health care reform in Massachusetts is proof of his "empathy and care" for the American people.

That interview came as Romney sought to defend his remarks, captured on a secret video at a May fundraiser, in which he suggested Obama supporters—which he estimated to be 47 percent of the country—had a "victim" mentality and were too dependent on the government.

After the video was made public, Romney initially doubled down on his remarks. But in an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity the day after his first debate with Obama, Romney dialed back on that rhetoric, too, insisting he had been "completely wrong" to make the suggestion."

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