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On Leno, Romney Free-Associates on Veepstakes Field -- VIDEO

Updated: March 28, 2012 | 11:44 a.m.
March 28, 2012 | 11:37 a.m.

If you want a window into how Mitt Romney reacts when he's not scripted, Jay Leno supplied that opportunity Tuesday night on The Tonight Show. He asked Romney to give one-word impressions of various political figures, and the answers were revealing.

Check him out refusing to take the bait about a certain large New Jersey governor and the way he put a rival in his place -- or the place he'd like him to be.

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