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OK, grits and “y’all” didn’t work for Mitt in Mississippi and Alabama. Nor did outspending Santorum by as much as 10 to one or having the entire establishment in Mississippi behind him. Nor, of course, was it that helpful to Mitt to have Gingrich siphoning off a third of the very conservative votes in those two states. He still couldn’t win.
 
But there is another problem.
 
Mitt’s trying too hard. Trying too hard to be folksy and one of the gang; trying too hard to “connect” with “regular folks.” The way to connect, I hate to say it, is not to show up every day with the same style of freshly pressed tight Levis, with the same checkered dress shirt. (I hope Jeeves isn’t ironing those for him!)

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