or not? - and that's what this was addressing." Romney then headed to a fundraiser in Orange County that raised more than $4 million, his campaign said. In the footage, Mr Romney also cautions against harshly criticising the President because it could alienate voters who supported him in 2008 and continue to like him personally, even if they disapprove of his handling of the economy. "When you say to them, 'Do you think Barack Obama is a failure?' they overwhelmingly say no. They like him. But when you say, 'Are you disappointed that his policies haven't worked?' they say yes. And because they voted for him, they don't want to be told that they were wrong, that he's a bad guy, that he did bad things, that he's corrupt." Mr Romney also jokes about his father, George Romney, who was born in Mexico to American parents, suggesting that there would be an electoral advantage if he were of Hispanic descent. "He was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino," he said. The footage of Mr Romney was an unwelcome development for the challenger, who has been under fire from his own party in recent days, both for an ill-judged response to the anti-US demonstrations in the Middle East and for an anaemic domestic campaign. He has frustrated many Republicans with a strategy seemingly based on hoping that a