Romney’s Shifts Leave Doubts About Which Mitt Voters Would Get

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When Governor Mitt Romney set out to fix the dysfunctional health-care system in Massachusetts, one of his first moves was to embrace a political nemesis.

Romney had faulted John Sasso, a Democratic operative, for his 1994 election loss to Senator Edward Kennedy, yet now he needed Sasso’s political ties and instincts to deal with a Democratic legislature and achieve a signature goal.