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>>tagoll+(OP)
IIRC Jonn Kerry's campaign for President was plagued by too much nuance in both his and the campaign's communications.

And the Romney critique as the "flipping Mormon" can also be seen as a rejection of nuance.

>>funstu+1a
I don't think nuance was the issue for Romney and the "flipping" issue.

Romney was a pretty successful Governor of a liberal state. He needed to appeal to nationwide Republicans in the primary so he slid a lot further to the right. Then he was up against a reasonably popular Democratic president, so he slid back to the middle.

The only nuance was that he tried to muddy the sloshing to make it look like he wasn't changing his positions.