“Not an indication of Romney strengths, but rather compounding Obama weaknesses (gas prices + the whole Trayvon thing is making him look like the second coming of Malcolm X)”
Yes. If the two wings of the Government Party run Obama-Romney 2012, the contest will simply be as to which charlatan is the least despised by their base and the neutrals.
The People are not funding the GOPE;Hollywood and fewer corporations are enthused to fund Obama and those who are, are said to be giving much less;Oprah is going to support Mao, but only with a sack over her head;Soros is even sanguine between Mao and Romney, and so it goes.
This could lead one to wonder who exactly is funding this election. Are they even Americans for the most part any longer, among the hand off to the big donors, who are apparently the only donors?