Mitt's Worst Week? Please.

After reading the headlines from nearly every major news publication over the past couple of days, I think it is safe to say that the press wants to help Mitt Romney take down his campaign signs and billboards.

For some reason, the press wants us to think the race is over.

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Today's headlines all but rejoice at the latest Quinnipiac University/CBS/New York Times poll showing Obama leading in three swing states.  CNN and the Washington Post can hardly contain themselves from pulling their fingers off their celebratory confetti launchers.

Please.

Writer Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post even awarded Mitt Romney as the recipient of having the worst week in the beltway.  Mr. Cillizza would like us to believe that Mitt Romney had the worst week?

I think it is pretty clear that Cillizza wanted Mitt Romney to have the worst week.  After all, it was the same week that the president received some scathing news from the Commerce Department which undeniably reflected that Obama's astronomically expensive economic recovery efforts have not worked.  1.5 GDP after his 3 1/2 best efforts and Mr. Cillizza wants us to focus on how England got their feelings hurt when Mitt Romney answered a question about Britain's highly self-criticized preparedness for their own games?

I'll admit that Mitt Romney's comments about England's preparedness were not exactly appropriate, but shame on the US press for their coverage of this very inconsequential story.

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Romney may have offended the British press, but the president's best 3 1/2 year efforts have not worked to stabilize our economy.  What matters more?  My neighbors who are struggling to find employment and who are desperate to keep their home could care less if the British press got their feelings hurt.

It goes without saying, the press wants to focus on how Mitt had a bad week, but it might be time for them to actually highlight the fact that Americans have had an even harder couple of years

Obama's policies have not worked.  America's economic recovery has not happened---Obama ran on the promise that he was the man to fix it.  We believed him and even when his party had majority control of the House and Senate, unemployment remains over 8% and the GDP is now slowing to record lows and furthermore, we are trillions and trillions of dollars deeper in debt than the day he took office.

Will the press please talk about what would be different in Obama's second term and focus on issues that are truly consequential?

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In the meantime, I am going to support the candidate with a proven track record.  An individual who time and again over the course of his sterling 25+ year career, like Obama "inherited" massive messes to clean up, but unlike our president, in nearly every situation, Romney successfully completed the job he was hired to do.

Regardless of what the press chooses to report, the same cannot be said of our president.

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Sorry members of the press, this presidential race is far from over.  In fact, it is just getting started.

Go Mitt.