“Democrats have Mr. Romney squarely in their sights”

According to Michael Shear at the Caucus (NY Times), the Romney camp is justified in asking if the Democrats are nervous:

It appears the Dems have decided Mitt  Romney will be their Republican opponent in 2012:

Republicans are heading into an intense period of presidential campaigning as their candidates jockey to be the party’s nominee next year.

But Democratic leaders appear to have already decided who will win that contest: Mitt Romney.

In the last several days, President Obama’s political allies have made a series of attacks on Mr. Romney’s character and record, virtually ignoring the other Republican candidates and the continuing primary campaign.

It is as if the Democrats have fast-forwarded to the spring of 2012.

In a new Web video released Friday morning, the Democratic National Committee continued to hammer Mr. Romney for referring to the president’s proposed payroll tax cut as a “little Band-Aid” for the middle class.

“Fifteen hundred dollars might be a Band-Aid to Mitt Romney,” the video says. “But to a middle-class family, fifteen hundred goes a long way. Mitt Romney, he’s wrong for the middle class.”

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