The short of it is this..
If you and/or your friends and family can't get by because they are un/underemployed, or because the cost of pretty much everything has risen out of range - none of this crap is going to matter.
Not tax returns, horses, race, religion, wealth, 'magic underwear', Bain Capital... None of it. Polls aren't going to matter either, because no amount of biased sampling, numerical massaging, or breathless exposé reports can convert an unemployed person into an employed person. If someone was unlucky enough to lose their job during Obama's watch, their personal unemployment figure is 100%.
It isn't going to matter how Fat-hEd Shultz, Angrier Mitchell, or Madcow frame it.
The only question that will matter is this --
'Am I better off taking a Chance on Mitt Romney, or should I go for more of the same ?'
And unless Obama can turn the economy around, he is done. Period.