Most helpful of all, Romney was gaffe prone. This was a greater liability than ever, since each verbal stumble now lived forever online. Corporations are people, my friend. I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. Taken separately, these comments were mere hiccups. But string them together and they suggested a blind spot where ordinary Americans were concerned, the BMW zooming down the shoulder of the highway, wondering why the rule-following Fords and Hondas are upset. POTUS was still less popular than we would have liked. Romney led in plenty of polls. But
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