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- Strategists failed to define the Republican businessman early, leaving it to Democrats to tell an unflattering and very misleading story months in advance of the Republican National Convention. Obama strategists like David Axelrod felt they we being given a gift and took an enormous risk with huge anti-Romney ad spending in June, well before many Americans pay attention to elections…
- Romney’s eldest son, Tagg, drew up a list of 12 people whose lives had been helped by his father in ways that were publicly unknown but had been deeply personal and significant. But Romney’s strategists felt that discussing his personal side would backfire, and draw unwanted attention to Romney’s Mormonism, one of the main influences of his life…
- Infighting crippled Romney’s strategy. One of his key longtime advisers, Michael Murphy, declined to join the campaign because of his clashes with Stuart Stevens, a bombastic one-time Hollywood screenwriter “who told remarkable stories about himself, such as when he wrote in Outside magazine about taking ‘some of the banned performance-enhancing drugs that are often abused in the endurance sports I participate in, like cycling and cross-country skiing.’” … (more)
