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Romney distances himself from proposed racially tinged attacks against Obama

The U.S. political world was afire on Thursday over an explosive report that Republican party strategists are proposing doing "exactly what John McCain would not allow us to do" by launching personal, racially tinged attacks against U.S. President Barack Obama.Read Story

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