Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but, given his campaign speeches of the last few days, Mitt Romney seemed to avoid the word “change” in his concession speech last night. According to a transcript – I didn’t hear it, because I was at the very noisy McCain victory event in Nashua – Romney used the word just once, and then not in the “I can bring change” sort of way. (He said that he didn’t think much would be accomplished by “sending insiders back to Washington just to change different chairs.”) Compare that to Romney’s two-minute television ad, which aired just before the voting, in which he used “change” six times, and his appearances in the days before the primary, in which he often cited the need for change. My guess is that since the word has become so horrendously over-used, and is so associated with Democrats, and since Romney said it over and over and over again and still lost, he might pull back from it, while sticking with the general concept.