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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (511991)	10/6/2012 11:18:26 PM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

Mitt Romney is worth $250 million. Why so little? The author's point or conclusion, at the end of page 3 is: Does it really matter if Romney is worth $250 million, $1 billion or more? Rich is rich after all, right? I think it does, politically as well as substantively. Politically, the alternatives are not great. If he were perceived as the first real billionaire to run for president, it would only exacerbate popular doubts about how someone living so removed from the concerns of average Americans — or even just 47 percent of them — could effectively represent them. And if he is not a billionaire, doesn’t it suggest that he was not a great private-equity investor after all, thus torpedoing his claim to understand how to create jobs and get the economy back on track? Something to keep in mind on Nov. 6. washingtonpost.com