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Romney for President

"Family" +
  2:01 web video from April 6, 2012.

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Ann Romney: Even then you knew that these moments would be fleeting, but you didn't really believe it because you were so in the moment of living with those boys, and it was pretty chaotic, and a lot of fun, but they were great times.
 
    VIDEO TEXT: “Ann and her '6 boys'”
 
Ann Romney: That's the gang.  Those are the five boys.  I hate to say it but often I had more than five sons; I had six sons.  And he would be as mischievious and as naughty as the other boys.

He'd come home and pwww, everything would just explode again.  And that's the kind of energy that he'd bring home and just get them all riled up again and you know wrestling and throwing balls and just being a kid himself.

There were a lot of pranks, a lot of pranks.  The boys liked to surprise him when he'd come home from work—and this was when they were a little bit older—where they would wait for him and he'd come up the walk, and they'd drop from a tree and you know, I mean just to scare the living daylights out of him.  And his reaction always wasn't what you would expect. (laughs)

It was hard to manoeuver.  I could do okay when I had the two, three not bad, four it got to be a little much, and then with the fifth one, and Craig was my active child; he was a handful.

They are the joy of our life.  I miss having them all under one roof all the time.  I would love to go back in time and just see all those five boys under one roof again.
 

Notes: Likeability was emerging as a major concern for the Romney campaign; recent polls have showed more voters viewing him unfavorably than favorably.  This is clearly an attempt to humanize him.