Mitt Romney: the 47 percent

A lot of voters were unsure about Mitt Romney. After all he was rich. He was awkward on the stump. He seemed unable to connect with the average person. Romney could have overcome all of that. Until he spoke to a gathering of his campaign contributors. His speech as secretly taped by someone--to this day, no one knows who. But that tape probably sealed the doom of the Romney campaign. The perception that he was Not One of Us was set in concrete.