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Ann Romney: She and Mitt were so poor in college they had to liquidate some stock | Digg Politics

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Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann Romney (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ann Romney: She and Mitt were so poor in college they had to liquidate some stock | Digg Politics:

During her remarks, Mrs. Romney was interrupted several times by cheering supporters. At the same time, though, the speech raises some dangers for the Romneys. Now that Ann is using the details of her domestic life for political purposes, journalists and Obama supporters are sure to focus on parts of that existence that might reflect less well on her and her husband. For example, she has said that when Mitt was in college, the two of them were so financially strapped that they had to liquidate some of their stock portfolio to get by. At the time Mrs. Romney said that she was engaged in a “struggle” to bring up her children, the family was living in a seven bedroom, six-and-a-half-bathroom mock-Colonial mansion in Belmont, Massachusetts, while spending summers at their five-thousand-square-foot vacation home, which sits on eleven lakefront acres in New Hampshire.

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