The OP by PassedOut referred to Nate Silver's blog, Today Silver has Romney behind by a touchdown with time running out:
http://fivethirtyeig...own/#more-35344
So is it time for a Hail Mary? Otherwise put, what will happen on Wednesday? What must Romney do?
Romney's "I like to fire people" is regularly deplored, but I think the criticism is mis-directed. Really he said something along the lines of "I like to fire people who are not doing their jobs". Who doesn't? But this obvious business assessment is not enough. No one cared that Bush had an MBA while Lehman Bros was collapsing.
The problem is that running a corporation and leading the country are entirely different tasks, and the people have a good sense of this in their collective gut. Romney might deplore my performance as a citizen of this country, but he cannot fire me. Perhaps he can lead, perhaps he can persuade, but he cannot fire me.
The Republican Convention was (to pursue Silver's analogy) an incomplete pass at best. On Wednesday, Romney must establish himself as a leader, someone we will trust to call the plays, otherwise he may as well concede the game.