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It’s hard to ignore that Mitt Romney’s victory in the Granite State yesterday might have been, in part, a function of populist rhetoric from the right. While analysts anticipated that the Massachusetts governor would leave his neighboring New Hampshire with a double-digit lead, his success was likely facilitated by the aggressive attacks coming from rival GOP contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry.

His opponents tried to make Romney out to be a Wall Street barracuda, preying on working Americans â€" undoubtedly a suspect political strategy. But more importantly, it was a one-dimensional view of Bain Capital and free markets, intended to spur the kind of class warfare that the left â€" and President Obama â€" is inclined toward.

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