Well I guess I owe Eric Fehrnstrom (senior aid to the Romney
campaign) an apology, I ridiculed him in a previous blog on his “Etch-a-Sketch”
remark. I was clearly wrong as the “Etch-a-Sketch”
seems to be working just fine.
If Romney wins it will clearly hinge on the first debate, Obama
slept thru while Romney slid to the center and defused millions of dollars in
negative campaign ads in a short hour and a half. Why did this work so well, after all the Romney
camp could not have planned it? You can’t
possibly plan on a media master like Obama showing up so desultory.
The aspect of all this that I missed is hidden in the
numbers of viewers; the Republican nomination debates drew approximately 7.6
million viewers, the Republican Convention about 22 million, the first
presidential debate; a whopping 70 million viewers. Clearly millions of viewers were paying attention
for the first time, and what they saw was a centrist Mitt Romney and I suspect
the reaction of many viewers was something like “this guy’s not so bad.” That (maybe) is all Romney needed in light of
the failed presidency of Barak Obama.
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