Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney today formally declared his intention to seek the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

Romney, who has consistently placed at the top of GOP voters’ preference polls and who was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008, said he intends to make improving the economy the centerpiece of his campaign againstPresident Barack Obama. “Barack Obama has failed America,” he told supporters in New Hampshire, the site of the first primary of the 2012 campaign.

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