How big of a bounce will Mitt get..........

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A few points. Likely rough parity with Obama for a while. I expect the polling to be very tight or somewhat pro-Romney over the summer, but I don't think that much will change structurally.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't think it will put Romney anywhere close to consistently beating BHO in the polls. Romney will have to that himself.

And I think he will. Romney will be the one who gets to frame the whole race. It'll be refreshing.

Romney would be able to do that if he weren't painfully unlikeable and, more importantly, uncharismatic, but as it is he'll struggle horribly once he's facing somebody whom he can't nontrivially outspend. I don't think Romney is capable of winning this election. Obama is still capable of losing it, but he'll have to actively do so or the world will have to actively make him do so.

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