What can he say? "You lousy voters watched the debate as lazily as I participated in it"?

Romneys performance falls apart, never came together in the first place, for anyone who has followed the campaign or knows the stats, but there is the rub: Most have not and do not. What makes last night so bad for Obama is that many of the much-discussed "undecideds" were not paying attention until the first direct confrontation between the candidates, which, according to one estimate I saw, drew 60 million viewers. Many do not remember (because they never knew) Romney has spent the past year railing against all regulation, taxes and entitlements, so when he endorsed all three in moderation he became the left-of-center candidate in their eyes, making all Obamas haltingly passive disagreement automatically far left.