The Longform Guide to the Campaign Trail

Robert Draper ? New York Times Magazine ? November 2011

The strengths and limitations of the Republican frontrunner:

"?The Mormon?s never going to win the who-do-you-want-to-have-a-beer-with contest,? concedes one adviser, while another acknowledges, ?He?s never had the experience of sitting in a bar, and like, talking.?

To his admiring subordinates, Romney is the man who, while waiting in an aide?s garage during an advertising shoot, took it upon himself to sweep it spick-and-span. He is the boss who hosted a 2008 post-mortem at his house in Belmont, Mass., and instead of demanding answers or fixing blame, passed out photo albums of the campaign for each staff member to keep. One longtime aide maintains that Romney is, no matter how much of a corporate barracuda the Democrats make him out to be, ?more Richie Cunningham of Happy Days than Gordon Gekko of Wall Street. And he possesses an almost otherworldly unflappability ? seen, for example, on a public street in 2009, when a detractor who recognized Romney cursed at him. ?Well!? remarked Romney to a companion. ?I guess somebody?s having a bad day!??

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