n every presidential contest back to George Washington, there’s a time when the two candidates seem like equal combatants, with each deploying his own considerable skills and well-crafted strategy.
The race see-saws: One week, Candidate A is up. The next, Candidate B.
Then there’s a time in every battle for the world’s most powerful job when one candidate seems to outclass the other, when the campaign goes through a sea change and one man takes a clear lead, often an insurmountable one.
That happened in 2008, when Barack Obama and Sen. John McCainwere running neck-and-neck in the early summer before the Arizona Republican, through missteps and a failure to fight, began to falter and fade in the fall.
But Mitt Romney isn’t John McCain, and this isn’t your grandfather’s campaign.
Historians may well look back, when they dissect Mr. Romney’s landslide victory in November 2012, to last week — a week when the Republican candidate not only showed that he’s ready to mix it up in the octagon, but the Democratic incumbent looked like an overrated palooka finally matched against someone his own size.
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