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Timeline: Mitt Romney’s Worst Month Ever



Benjy Sarlin August 6, 2012, 3:52 PM 15685

Mitt Romney’s fundraising team might be popping champagne corks Monday, celebrating a second straight month of more than $100 million in donations — easily outpacing Obama. His communications team? Not so much.

While Romney is finally overtaking Obama in the money race, the last few weeks have been among the most difficult of his political career. Polls show voters see Romney in an increasingly negative light and Obama making progress in swing states, where he leads everywhere but North Carolina in the PollTracker Average.

Romney has a compelling campaign message (the economy stinks, elect a businessman to fix it), but attacks from the Obama campaign and his own missteps have stopped him from focusing on it for more than a day or two at a time.

Here’s a timeline of Romney’s cruel summer, beginning in July:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-worst-month-timeline-july.php?ref=fpa