Sandy and Christie Screwed Romney; May Be Time to Write-Off America

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

You might want to get that checked out, man.

Romney lost this election when he failed to win the second debate. The right strategy in a townhall debate provided the best opporunity to connect with people, humanize and articulate his policies. An much more solid performance early on with made Romney more solid when he hit on the Libya question and thus less likely to bungle it. He was so far down that in September, that he needed that second debate domination to have a chance, one wasn't enough.

Too avoid being so dependent on lightning striking twice in the same place, he would have had to make some different choices early on and Dibble has some good points on that. Avoiding 47%, getting that primary done sooner, having a "Hispanic Strategy", making a deal with Paul of some kind, running a better convention, and not having an idiot win the primary in a MO Senate race and then steal the news cycles leading up to your convention would have helped a great deal.