What oh what could've caused Romney's swoon?

Et tu, Fox? Not only is Mitt Romney the worst Republican presidential nominee since ... I give up, I can't think of anyone worse, but his staff is clueless.

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is at a loss to explain a series national polls showing the candidate slipping to President Barack Obama.

"It's the middle of summer, it's the doldrums. It's the Olympics. There has not been any national news that would push these numbers from -3 to -9," a senior Romney adviser told reporters on Friday at a briefing in campaign headquarters.

"You'd see it in Rasmussen and you'd see it in Gallup, and we're not seeing it," the adviser added, encouraging reporters to not "read too much into any one single survey."

Rasmussen exists to keep conservatives safely inside their Fox News bubble. It's not meant to impart actual accurate information!

But worse is the claim that there has been no national news that would push those numbers down. Really? Nothing? Here, let me help. This:

And this: