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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong

Benjy Sarlin reports that Democrats are piling onto Romney for his comments suggesting that he didn’t get “all that government stuff”… That stuff being things like the differences between Medicare and Medicaid.

The irony is there’s plenty of reason to believe Romney did know those differences, and that what was meant to be an attempt at folksiness has exploded into yet another out of touch moment.

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