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Source: AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?
"He ought to be killing Obama, and he's clearly not doing that," said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. "He should be doing better."
Their sentiments were echoed in interviews with more than a dozen GOP activists and social conservative leaders who attended the annual gathering focused on social and cultural issues and sponsored by the Family Research Council.
"He needs to be more visible," said Dawn Hawkins, who works for the anti-pornography group Morality In Media. Even though Romney and his allies outspent Obama and his backers for months on TV in battleground states, Hawkins said: "He's not up on TV very often. He has very few ads running on TV and radio. Obama has ads everywhere."
"If the Republican Party loses this election, conservatives will have had it," Fischer said. "They will be done, finished."
Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-09-15/gop-activists-to-romney-why-arent-you-winning
ANSWER: These people live in a bubble inside the news bubble the rest of country lives in (re: Fox News)