Etch A Sketch Maker Capitalizes After Being Drawn Into Race

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Mitt Romney didn’t make Etch A Sketch a playtime fixture. Generations of nimble-fingered budding artists did that.

His campaign did manage to make the toy that Ohio Art Co. released in 1960 a central political metaphor when a spokesman compared the Republican presidential candidate’s views to the erasable drawing pad.