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• Full text of Romney’s speech

Tuesday night could easily have been a boring, unremarkable evening in a Republican primary race that was already over, with presumptive nominee Mitt Romney appearing somewhere in Pennsylvania to claim victory in another non-competitive contest.  Instead, by moving to New Hampshire and framing the evening as Romney’s assumption of the mantle of Republican nominee, the Romney campaign created a semi-official kickoff of the general election campaign.  Doing so allowed Romney to establish up key themes, campaign in an important swing state, and get more press coverage than he otherwise would.