Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin told Charlie Rose in May of this year that all Romney has to do is survive being disqualified by the Obama campaign, and that if he can do that and then rise to the occasion by using his VP pick, the convention and the debates, then Romney will likely win:
It’s always fun to go back and look at people’s advice in the past and see how it lines up with reality. And in this case, I think it’s lining up pretty good.