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Jody Baumgartner, a scholar of the presidency at East Carolina University, discounts "the myth that's grown up in the last couple of decades that good executives or good businesspeople will necessarily make good political leaders." Managerial experience, he says, is not the same as political leadership, relationship building in Congress or the crucial ability to read and shape the public mood. "Some of Romney's business skills might be helpful, but business is not politics, and politics is not business. Otherwise, we'd have the same word for it."
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