Bottom line. Safe loses. They went safe. The only true bright spot was debate #1. Debate 2 was pretty good too, but the last 45 minutes was the turning point in the election when Crowley inserted herself, and the crowd cheered. Romney continued to gain for another week or so, but the seeds were planted that night for the loss. Romney went safe from there trying to look presidential and give undecideds a real option. Too many kept the old one. They miscalculated that Obama wasn’t going to be able to sell his ‘we’re on the path to recovery’ narrative. They thought the discontent of people would motivate voters to turn out for Romney, and it wasn’t enough.
I watched all the debates and until this morning I thought Mitt outclassed Bronco. This morning I concluded that Bronco knew he had the election safe in hand and did not want to participate in the debate. It all makes sense today.
Totally true, agree with all you say.