Romney battling to win back women

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In the general election battle for female voters, Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign is testing a new strategy contrasting Ann Romney and her brood of boys against President Obama’s family of girls.

“I hate to say it, but often I [felt like I] had more than five sons,” Ann Romney, the wife of Obama’s likely opponent in November, says in a new ad. “I had six sons, and [Mitt] would be as mischievous and as naughty as the other boys,” she says as decades-old photographs of the Romneys flash across the screen with the message, “Ann and her ‘6 boys.'”

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