Romney holds own against state fair hecklers

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DES MOINES — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Thursday told hecklers at the Iowa State Fair who pressed him for solutions to paying for federal entitlement programs, “If you don’t like my answer, you can vote for someone else.”

On the 80-degree opening day of the fair, Romney found himself in the midst of a heated back-and-forth exchange about corporate greed with a retired Des Moines teacher and a former Catholic priest.

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