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Behind the eight ball again?

“The race is very close,” senior adviser Kevin Madden told AFP as thousands of supporters gathered under a blistering Florida sun for a Romney rally on Thursday.

“This is not an election that's going to be won or decided here in September. Ultimately it’s going to be decided in November, and that’s where we put our focus - all the way until election day.”

Observers, including several Republicans, say the party’s nominee put himself behind the eight ball when a secretly filmed video surfaced showing him branding “47 per cent” of Americans as government-dependent freeloaders.

The remarks emerged as Romney was already in damage-control mode over a statement accusing Obama of sympathising with Islamist protesters that was released just hours after the killing of four Americans in Libya.

Romney’s remarks in the video, shot at a May fundraiser and published by Mother Jones magazine earlier this week, kicked up the worst firestorm of his campaign - and yet the candidate is not shying away from the message, but doubling down on it.

- Battered Romney has tough week, TheAustralian.com.au, September 21, 2017.

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