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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Election 2012 / Food Romney, Losing Independents, Listlessly Picks at His Food
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Romney's 47% comments, which were about how he was trying to attract independents, are now pushing independents away:
The survey, taken Tuesday, finds just over half of independents say the video won't make a difference in their vote. Those who say it will have an effect by 2-1, 29%-15%, say it makes them less likely rather than more likely to support the GOP presidential nominee.
And Mitt Romney is very sad about this:
Mr. Romney himself seemed pensive on the early-morning flight Tuesday from California to Utah, sitting alone with a white legal pad and a pen as he picked at a vegetarian breakfast burrito. An aide said that he had eaten dinner alone in his hotel room the night before as the video controversy began to unfold.
That is such a sad, lonely image. You could write a whole book, or write and record a whole album, about the idea of Romney being depressed and picking apart a vegetarian breakfast burrito. I've felt more emotion for him as a human being thanks to this one paragraph from the New York Times than I did in the entire Republican National Convention.
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