Jon Freedland, Guardian
If you're outside the United States, in Britain say, the last time you checked in Mitt Romney was the privileged, hapless candidate born with a silver foot in his mouth who had managed to screw up what should have been the easiest possible assignment – making nice to London on the eve of the Olympics – and was surely destined to go down to defeat in November at the hands of that master rhetorician and campaigner, Barack Obama.If that's your view, you may want to sit down. For Romney and Obama are now locked in a bitingly tight contest, one that the Republican...