John Hinderaker from Powerline writes about Romney's inability to connect with Republicans nationwide.

It seems to me that one of the sub-plots of this complicated Republican primary season has been Romney's failure to catch on with the party's rank and file. His numbers in national polls have really gone nowhere; his current RCP average is only 9.1%, not much over half that of John McCain, whose campaign's struggles have been another of the season's stories. While I'm sure our friend Hugh Hewitt would say that everything is going according to plan and Romney has the nomination just about wrapped up, Romney can't be happy with the fact that his efforts so far have failed to make much of an impression on Republicans nationwide.

The reason, he thinks, is that Mitt seems too slick on TV; people are just not connecting with his highly calculated image. Maybe I'm wrong about the value of slickness.