That's not an earthquake you're feeling - that's just Mitt reshaking his etch-a-sketch...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/romneys-etch-a-sketch-campaign-begins_n_1449581.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/romneys-etch-a-sketch-campaign-begins.html\\Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 and Latinos. In what is probably not a coincidence, these two constituencies are the targets for the first two major Mitt Romney Etch A Sketch pivots of the general election. After having repeatedly denounced any need for the federal government to subsidize tuition costs during the primary, Romney has now endorsed Obamas call for extending lower rates for federally-subsidized loans. Romney says he supports the measures in part because of the extraordinarily poor conditions in the job market. Apparently, he has been informed of the poor job market since wrapping up the nomination, when he was still advising graduates concerned about debt to acquire a high-paying job.
On immigration, Romney is making the turn a little more slowly, as youd expect, given the sensitivities involved in holding together his base. Romney has deputized Marco Rubio to craft his own version of the Dream Act, a somewhat more restrictive version of the reform that Republicans in Congress killed and Romney opposed in the primary, when he positioned himself on the partys right on immigration. Romney is studying Rubios bill