While traveling the country campaigning for the Republican presidential nod, Mitt Romney has been setting himself apart from rivals by highlighting his business acumen. The Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief Peter S. Canellos recently offered some insight in how a dealmaker operates and how Romney's experience at Bain Capital could help the former Massachusetts governor in the White House. However, while Canellos's piece is about Romney, it takes 12 paragraphs before Romney is mentioned by name, so readers may want to skip the intro, which highlights three presidents who were not politicians before they won the White House. —Matthew Wurtzel
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