Rubio's VP inside track: He and Romney have used many of the same staffers

At least six past and current Rubio Senate aides, including chief of staff Cesar Conda and his deputy, Terry Sullivan, worked for Romney’s 2008 presidential bid, establishing a direct link and a line of communication between the front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination and the front-runner in the Republican veepstakes. There’s also a trail of fundraisers, donors and consultants who have overlapping relationships with Rubio and Romney…

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“There is a synergy,” Cabrera-Morris, an Orlando-based consultant and lobbyist, told POLITICO. “The people who were with Marco who are now with Romney [believe that] Marco and Romney have most of the same ideals. A lot of us made the decision based on that.”

As for Rubio’s team, she added, “The cream of the crop of Romney now work for Marco Rubio.”

The Rubio-Romney staff connection also highlights a key trait the two men share: They’re establishment favorites who are running extremely disciplined operations — one on the presidential stage, the other in the Senate — that stay on message and don’t veer wildly from one strategy to the next.

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