Romney Aces Convention Test

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A few hours before Mitt Romney spoke to the Republican convention last night, his campaign did something clever. It’s normal procedure before a major speech is to release excerpts so the evening TV news shows can preview the address. The Romney team did so, only these excerpts were dull and uninteresting.

Perhaps it was unintentional, but the effect was to lower expectations about the speech. This was unnecessary. The speech turned out to the best written, best delivered, and most appealing that Romney has ever delivered, at least in my presence.