By any objective measure, Mitt Romney has had now a couple months of bad weeks on the campaign trail. It's literally a new thing every week it seems like. He got a mild boost (1-2 points) from picking Paul Ryan, and it's been straight downhill ever since.
But this week has been a complete disaster every day. It's been daily now that the mendacity has come back to bite the guy in the ass. Monday's campaign epitaths and the now infamous MoJo video and the Worst press Conference Ever at 10 PM, Tuesday was 47 percent day all day, Wednesday was the backfired attack on the President over the "debunked" MoJo video and the brownface incident on Univision, Thursday was Ann Romney's contemptible "This is hard" comment, and Friday was Paul Ryan getting booed at the AARP convention and the tax return info dump. It's been a disaster.
What will next week bring? My guess is "nothing good". Romney and Ryan will be in Ohio will President Obama will be in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting.
We'll see how it shakes out. But now people are talking about the Senate slipping away from the GOP and the story's starting to move to what kind of chances the Dems have in taking back the House, a far cry from just six weeks ago when nobody seriously thought the Dems were going to keep either.
And the reality is the GOP is still a Presidential election and 3 senate pickups from controlling the government. That's something we cannot overlook.
Keep that in mind: as bad as it's been for Romney, we've still got a long way to go in Congress.
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