Time’s Mark Halperin is one of the high profile pundits who is now edging towards a new narrative that will likely become the conventional wisdom that Mitt Romney appears likely to win. He’s using some hedges but as he hedges, he edges.
He offers these five ways Mitt Romney is Underestimated and Misunderstood. (And in our typical partisan fashion some Democrats will now say he’s campaigning for Romney, when he is reporting and giving news consumers his best take):
1. He knows why he’s running — and never forgets.
2. He is not rattled by President Obama (too often).
3. He and his wife are comfortable losing.
4. found a fine balance between micro-managing and delegating in his campaign.
5. He is physically surrounded by people who love and respect him — and who he loves and respects. (That will be even more true when he gets to Tampa.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.