[greene66]

I do believe Romney’s rise is almost 90% due to the flatfootedness of Obama and his team, after his lousy debate performance. So much weirdness has ensued... from Biden grinning like a hyena to jaw-dropping ads comparing voting for Obama to first-time sex. It’s started creeping out the electorate, even the mushy middle-of-the-road types who were initially going to go with him. And more people are just suddenly seeing Obama for what he is, as opposed to the carefully calculated ‘infallable messianic myth’ the media had constructed of him.

Romney has definately improved, in a well-oiled machine sort of way. He’s avoided the kind of dumb statements he was occasionally making during the primaries last year that made him seem so aloof. But I still credit Obama’s faltering more than anything for Romney’s rise.

[Tublecane]

I blame more his obviously bad job performance, the crappy economy, and his inability to argue how his next term will be different due to no plans to do anything different. Nit that the strategy was good, and especially that the debates and his team’s spinning of them weren’t important. It’s just that his early lead came about because no one was paying attention back then.

[MuttTheHoople]

Actually, I think Romney would've won if he was a stuttering idiot. I know tons of 2008 Obama voters who want nothing to do with him in 2012, but NO McCain supporters who're voting for Obama.

As it is, Romney's debate performances plus his speeches have turned me from a "Vote against Obama" voter to a full-fledged romney supporter.

[Steely Tom]

And more people are just suddenly seeing Obama for what he is, as opposed to the carefully calculated ‘infallable messianic myth’ the media had constructed of him.

I'm thinking "inflatable messiah" but that's just me.