ROmney is the master of telling any group what they want to hear. Nobody denies that. Repubs HATE him in a big way. but he had the ground game and the money to outspend the field 6-to-1, even though he was winning primaries with 75% of GOP primary voters voting AGAINST him.
Now, he can't outspend Obama, who just raised a record 181 million last month (what did romney earn?)
Now, he can't buidl a better ground game than obama - who communitiy organized a HUGE ground operation with much better reach than romney.
He can't hate on obama for anmesty (he supported it), gun control (which obama never did but Romney actually signed a gun bill as gov), for obamacare (as he wrote it for his own stae first), etc.
His points of attack are very narrow. Now that the economic debate is over, romney is going to be much less sure of himself when debating the neocon Obama.
Hardly!!
One, the economy is the NUMBER ONE ISSUE in this race. If Romney can slap Obama down on that, the rest is a piece of cake.
Where's Obama going to go now?
Foreign policy? Uh.....NOOOOOO!!! We got dead ambassadors and Iran about to get nukes; the Middle East is ablaze. And, NO, screaming "I killed Osama Bin Laden" won't cut it. That was a year and a half ago. Al-Qaeda made it perfectly that killing Bin Laden did virtually NOTHING TO STOP their operations.
Social issues? Good luck there. Abortion? Advantage, Romney; Marriage? Advantage, Romney
Immigration? If Romney hits Obama with half the ferocity that the Univision folks did, Obama is THROUGH!!!
As for money, not only can Romney outspend Obama (heck, the Obama administration has conceded that such will likely happen) but, what's the point of spending if you don't get your money's worth?
As Charles Krauthammer put it, in one night, Romney just vaporized hundreds of millions of dollars blown in attack ads from Obama.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/06/krauthammer_romneys_debate_performance_undoes_100_million_worth_of_negative_advertising.htmlFurthermore, for Obama to spend all that dough to this point, yet he STILL CAN'T PUT ROMNEY AWAY, that spells trouble for him and his crew, especially given the bounce Romney's getting from pounding the president in the debate.