Thump533 says, "I absolutely guarantee there will be a flurry of articles in the next week or two about the Romney resurgence, it is as inevitable as the sun rising."
I got to question Thump.
1. Did that same metric work for McCain?
2. Even if the Ronmey campaign has to write the bulk of the articles on the Romney resurregence, as sure as the sun rises there may be 4 times as many articles about the Romney collapse if the polling data warrants it.
In short Thump, don't confuse a large volume of propaganda with facts. Remember the Paulbots are the reining experts on this forum.
Answer: Didn't work for McCain, but his collapse wasn't generally talked about until the last week or two before the election.
Romney has had a truly terrible week last week (all the damage self-inflicted) and in general a pretty bad time from the RNC and after. Him doing basically nothing recently but fund raising doesn't do jack shit for the confidence of his supporters, either-why he's doing that mystifies me unless he is banking on blowing Obama out in the first debate (won't happen IMO).
Basically the analogy I think fits is a baseball game in the sixth inning and one team is up 6-1. The press is the announcers-they are going to do everything they can to keep the viewers watching. Closeness and drama will be created. Even a flattening of Romney's decline will be cast as a possible bump/turnaround by a lot in the mediat-that is where their money is made. I also think it is almost inevitable Romney will change tactics-drop the flat out lies (sorry Ryan), get off his Johnny one-note theme and possibly even starting talking up ideas and specifics. I caught his speech at Bill Clinton's function yesterday and it was actually pretty good. Probably a one-off fluke, but who knows.
My personal belief is I certainly wouldn't be betting on Romney at this stage but it's way too early to be closing the grave. Now is definately not the time for Obama volunteers and donors to back off and go into cruise mode.