HEMPSTEAD, NY — Democrats are boasting how President Obama plans to tie Mitt Romney to his more conservative primary positions during Tuesday’s night’s debate after letting him redefine himself at their first meeting. But Rep. Pete King (R-NY) thinks portraying Romney as a shape-shifting politician won’t work. That’s because Americans expect him to be one already.“Just talking practical politics I think voters discount a lot of that,” King told TPM Tuesday at Hofstra University in New York, where the debate is taking place. “They expect that in a general campaign that candidates are are going to take their old positions and make them more centrist, whether they’re Democrat or Republican.”
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