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Mitt Romney gets protective press pool
The Mitt Romney campaign has finally allowed the press to keep a protective pool on the candidate.
Like the White House press pool, the rotating group of reporters in the protective pool will trail Romney and provide an account of his day-to-day, minute-to-minute activities, which will be sent to all political media outlets and reporters.
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama agreed to allow a protective pool in June, just weeks after he had secured the Democratic nomination. Sen. John McCain, who secured his party's nomination in March, waited until the very end of July, though he often allowed press to travel on his plane with him prior to that. Then-Gov. George W. Bush did not take on a protective pool until September 2000 during his first campaign for the presidency.
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