WatchRomney's run an awful campaign. But his real problem is most Americans reject the Fox News/Limbaugh fairy tale
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/22/blame_fox_not_mitt/
Rather than inviting people to compare the present to how things should be — and therefore encouraging them to compare Barack Obama to whatever their ideal might be — Romney is asking people to compare Obama to George W. Bush. While that might work really well among those listening to Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck, it’s a losing fight with everyone else.
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So Romney cannot have a coherent foreign policy because what his voters want to hear is that Barack Obama sympathizes with terrorists. Most Americans, meanwhile, think of Obama as the guy who took out bin Laden. Romney cannot have a sensible tax policy because conservatives insist that he promote large, self-funding tax cuts for the rich. Most of the nation, however, supports raising taxes on the rich, and reality insists that cutting taxes also reduces revenues. Also, Romney didn’t invent the 47 percent nonsense; whether he truly believes it or not, he was simply parroting back what his voters have been hearing for years from Rush Limbaugh and others like him.
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WHo knows, maybe we still do have a democracy. (albeit a very corrupt one that's controlled by corporations and big money).
But hey, it seems we're not (yet) the total fascist corporatocracy that Fox, Rush, Glenn and others want us to be.
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I think Klein hits this nail more squarely on the head, and Krugman has some observations worth adding to that mix:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/18/romneys-problem-isnt-that-hes-a-bad-candidate-its-that-hes-a-conservative-one/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/opinion/krugman-disdain-for-workers.html
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Romney's campaign has been fine. He's raised a lot of money, and spent it reasonably well. His problem is him. His candidacy. His message.
His only saving grace (save for a highly motivated base) is that there are independent voters out there who are severely disillusioned with Obama, and who refuse to believe Romney's sincere about what he's running on. But their numbers shrink every time he opens his mouth into a live mic, and heaves a bollus of half-digested objectivism. His gaffes aren't the gaffes of a crypto-moderate. They're the kinds of things his running mate would say more elegantly before the Atlas Society.
The problem isn't the campaign. The problem is Mitt. He drank the Kool-Aid, and now he's sick in the head. That's not Fox's responsibility --it's his.