I actually thought Romney was saying that 47% of obama’s voters would never vote for him; therefore, he could never appeal to them. However, he could appeal to the other 53% and bring them over.
Basically yes that’s what he said. But appealing to a group of voters is one thing. Governing as the president of all Americans is something else again. Not enough distinction has been made between these two ideas and that is my main point and should be a point of emphasis IMHO.
He went on to say he was going to run a campaign to pull in the 5% to 10% he saw as undecided independents "in the middle".
That belief ~ that there's even a middle ~ is problem enough, but apparently 90% of the voting public wasn't in his target zone ~ which, interestingly enough, has been one of my criticisms of the guy for the last 5 years ~ and if you search FR enough you should find it. It's not like he kept it secret, but I think I'm the only one in FR who ever took him at his word, and there he was raising money from rich people using those very words.
I think cooler heads got to him on that ridiculous belief ~ probably Newt. He's been instructed to go after voters, not middles!