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The leaked Romney video was a major and potentially epochal blunder because it reinforced the pre-existing condition of Romney and Republicans being viewed by voters as favoring elites and feeling contempt for large masses of voters.
In the most profound political sense the Romney video created a "reverse Rorschach,” by which I mean this:
In the reverse-Rorschach, the candidate says things that convince widely disparate voters that he is really insulting and demeaning them, which is what happened with the Romney video.
It was not a gaffe, because Romney believes the words he said.
It was a catastrophic blunder, because voters learned in stark and widely repellent terms what Romney (and many Republicans) actually believe.
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/258799-why-romney-is-losing
In the most profound political sense the Romney video created a "reverse Rorschach,” by which I mean this:
In the reverse-Rorschach, the candidate says things that convince widely disparate voters that he is really insulting and demeaning them, which is what happened with the Romney video.
It was not a gaffe, because Romney believes the words he said.
It was a catastrophic blunder, because voters learned in stark and widely repellent terms what Romney (and many Republicans) actually believe.
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/258799-why-romney-is-losing