[nhwingut]

Wow, I didn’t read every word, but this surprisingly seems to be a pretty positive Romney story from the NY Times.

I've noticed a few of these types of stories the past week or so. And I have also noticed the media starting to slowly criticize Obama (a bit). The media is corrupt, but they are not dumb. They know Romney is winning and it's his race to lose.

I'm wondering if these puff pieces are meant as some sort of olive-branch to Team Romney - with hopes of down-the-road interviews with the president-elect.

[LS]

That’s exactly it. While I don’t think Mitt is that kind of guy, he could easily banish the MSNBC/CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS crowd to the back of the room and put Drudge, Fox, and FreeREpublic bloggers up front :)

[glorgau]

I'm wondering if these puff pieces are meant as some sort of olive-branch to Team Romney - with hopes of down-the-road interviews with the president-elect.

Bingo! The goal is to provide cover for later character assassination attempts.

[stanne]

Perhaps they are to create an illusion (for themselves as muxh as the public) of credibility.