It was the too-fierce response to Attack 1 -- the adamant insistence that Romney had nothing, nothing to do with anything that happened at Bain after February 1999 -- that set up Romney for Attack 2: Did he lie on SEC forms?

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"He is a young, nerdy, kind of good kid -- nothing to do with religious or anything, " the man said.

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It's because of management (ph) and of course, we all have the same cause, which has nothing to do with ethnicity or anything like that.

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"When we get out on the field it's just about playing your best, nothing to do with past results or anything, we just want to build on our last performance, " he told BBC Sport.

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If you manage three pages or more you know it has nothing to do with engagement, content quality or anything else.

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Whether the ambition is to become an investment banker or a Starbucks barista, the dirty little secret is that nothing learned during the four (or five) fun-filled years on idyllic campuses has anything to do with either form of employment.

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