Mitt Romney Backer Robert Murray, Energy CEO, Allegedly Coerced Employees To Donate

Romney Backer's Coercion Sparks Fright
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney smiles as he speaks to advisers and staff members on his campaign plane in Denver, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

IT IS BOTH a pundit's truism and a mathematical reality that Mitt Romney's path to the White House runs through Ohio. And that path, in turn, runs through a firm called Murray Energy.

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