Romney’s trip: More than a stumble here and there

So much has been written about Mitt Romney’s trip to England, Israel and Poland.  Most pundits reduced the trip to the drip-by-drip harm that his surprisingly error-prone campaign is inflicting on his candidacy.  Romney’s travels probably were more of a disaster than most observers and Romney strategists perhaps realize.  For a critical and more conservative component of the subgroup of Hispanic or Latino voters that Romney needs to win in November, Romney’s journey was especially worrisome.  For HispanicLatino veterans, I would imagine, the trip set off warning bells that most of the know-it-alls opining about such things have any notion about, much less an idea.

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