in fairness, I do think mitts speech was pretty good, in terms of politicking. I routinely watch msnbc almost exclusively during this type of stuff because I like getting their perspective, and while they mostly all usually shit over everything at the RNC, even they conceded his speech was good. Lawrence o donnel, maddow, chris matthews, all said it was the best speech they've ever heard from him. Even al sharpton thought it was good in terms of measuring oratory.
Yes that's anecdotal, but I think they are usually a good barometer, if they say something was from the republicans was good, there is a good chance it was.
One key theme I think we are going to keep hearing over and over (and something that was effectively done last night) is the romney campaign attacking obama, without "really" attacking him. By that I mean, republican focus groups have found that the most effective line against the president is dealing with the frustation of voters that voted for him last time. Honing in on those that were hopeful, and expected progress and "change" and are left holding an empty sack.
There has been an ad running in swing states to this affect and it's really becoming one of the overarching lines of attack
There is a decent article over at businessinsider expanding on this:
http://www.businessweek.com/article...ncy? Was he channelingReagan at that point!?
