… Right now, Mr. Romney is close in the polls for the most part because he is running up the numbers in strongly conservative communities. …
For him to narrow the gap with Mr. Obama or take the lead, he’ll eventually need to make inroads with voters in those urban, suburban and exurban places. And doing that will probably involve moderation on policy issues. …
A more politically moderate Mr. Romney has been on display in recent weeks and was on stage Wednesday night in Denver,where Mr. Romney talked of working with Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature and his efforts on the state’s health-care reform plan.
It’s getting late in the campaign with only a month until Election Day, but if Wednesday night was aimed at those voters it seemed a successful coming-out party for Team Romney. The next set of poll numbers will help tell how successful it was. [cont.]
Dante Chinni, Wall Street Journal