himself as a moderate to win centrist votes only to implement a far more extremist budget that savages popular programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich, then people will begin asking why this wasn't unmasked more in the general election. And the media* will have to answer why it let Romney's continual claim to create 12 million jobs -- to pick just one of many examples -- go without comment. As MacGillis puts it: It doesn't matter if we have failed in achieving many of the basics of campaign coverage, like getting a candidate to cough up a critical mass of tax returns, release his bundler list, and account for his proposals and position shifts with a minimum of detail and coherence. No, we have our trajectory. And dammit, we're sticking to it. * There is, of course, no such thing as "the media." Except, of course, when there is .