Now Mitt Romney Wants You To Love Him

BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins chronicles Mitt Romney’s changing public persona following his successful debate performance last week. Coppins writes that Romney is making a greater effort to connect with voters on an emotional level. “At a sunset rally in St. Petersburg Friday night, Romney devoted a large chunk of his speech to relating three personal, heartstring-tugging tales of people who have passed away, including an old friend from graduate school, and a soldier in Afghanistan,” writes Coppins. “His most impactful story, though, was of a sick 14-year-old boy, David Oparowski, in his Mormon ward who asked ‘Brother Romney’ to help him write a ‘will’ before he died.”

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