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Bob Biersack, Senior Fellow, Center for Responsive Politics

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Is Mitt Romney hiding something from the American voters? The Obama campaign thinks so, and is asking about the source of Romney's estimated $230 million fortune. Romney says he's done everything by the book, and that Obama is unjustly demonizing him for being rich and successful. Douglas Herbert discusses all these issues with his guest, Bob Biersack, a senior fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington DC.

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