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By MIKE ALLEN, JONATHAN MARTIN and JIM VANDEHEI |
It isnt the chair or the ho-hum convention. Or the leaked video. Or Stuart Stevens. Or the improving economy. Or media bias. Or distorted polls. Or the message. Or Mormonism.
Its Mitt.
With Republicans everywhere wondering what has happened to the Mitt Romney campaign, people who know the candidate personally and professionally offer a simple explanation: Its the candidate himself.
Slowly and reluctantly, Republicans who love and work for Romney are concluding that for all his gifts as a leader, businessman and role model, hes just not a good political candidate in this era.
It kills his admirers to say it because they know him to be a far more generous and approachable man than people realize far from the caricature of him being awkward or distant and they feel certain he would be a very good president.
Lousy candidate; highly qualified to be president, said a top Romney official. The candidate suit fits him unnaturally. He is naturally an executive.
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