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Mitt Romney heads to Liberty University this weekend to deliver the commencement address, walking a tightrope as he switches gears from the “severely conservative” rhetoric required in the GOP primary to the more moderate rhetoric needed to appeal to independent voters in the general election.

The crowd at Liberty U is no doubt expecting to hear his reaction to the president’s announcement on marriage equality and the passage of Amendment 1 in North Carolina. Romney’s campaign has billed the speech as part of his efforts to make inroads with social and religious conservatives he will need to win the election. As noted by Liberty faculty members Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski on the Huffington Post, with 50,000 students, the school is affiliated with the largest evangelical denomination in America, the 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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