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If the Obama campaign has cracked the code on how to make Mitt Romney pay a political price for his late rush to the center on tone and emphasis, we haven’t seen them execute their full plan yet.

That might be the central tactical question in the presidential contest right now.

And if there’s one thing we know about Boston — their brazen chutzpah knows no bounds. Ironically, that makes the Obama campaign’s task more difficult, not less.