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Independents will control this election. Romney needs to get cracking with that group. All of the other stuff means nothing or little.
Sorry, but that didn't come across.
The premise of this thread is that polls show (and have consistently shown) that independents are dropping off the Obama wagon. The polls also show that they are not all that thrilled with Romney.
So, to you point, yes....he needs to be garnering them.
Most independents I know or know of, don't like negative politics. Obama's negative blitz was a poor calculation on his part (again from MSNBC) who wondered what he hoped to accomplish with this. They are not hurting Romney with the demographic they would like to or need to.
Anecdotal: My wife is very apolitical, but votes. So I vote twice in every election. We had Moran and Tiahart running for senator. Two conservatives but Tiahart chose to make it an ugly fight. My wife, based on Tiaharts negative adds made the choice (one of the few times she has on her own) to vote for Moran. I know several people who did the same. As I told people, it didn't cost Moran a dime to get their votes. He didn't win them, Tiahart gave them to him.