BOSTON — At his campaign’s Election Night rally here, Mitt Romney offered a short concession speech bringing to an end a decade-long quest for the presidency that stretched across two elections, one financial collapse, and the rise of an implacably conservative tea party movement. His struggle to reconcile the moderate northeastern Republicanism that had been the hallmark of his early political career with the volatile, edgy, anger-fueled politics of the last four years was in many ways the story of his campaign — and perhaps the cause of his downfall.
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