This has been done as a sitcom gag at least twice.
I thought he’d gotten a bad hair dye job as well. It looks flat black with uber-white fuzzy bits on the back and side-burns that don’t blend anymore… but maybe that was the photography?
I considered that I was being whooshed, but you never know…he does have that lovely brown skin. 
He is Juan Percent… 
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More seriously, I don’t think that Romney was attempting to look Latino, I’ll go for the more mundane explanation that they just made a mess with his makeup…
…Or he was going for the Oompa Loompa vote. 
Neither Obama nor Romney speak passable Spanish, right? I can ask where the library is, but if you tell me, I still won’t know.
As much as I want to believe Romney has managed to find another way to be offensive and stupid, I have to go with comical makeup error. There is precedent: http://i.imgur.com/xFnEQ.png.
Man, if there was ever a sentence that was just crying out for a typo…
I suspect Romney is a serial tanner as well. I’ve noticed his alternating red/dark complexion for a long time now and assumed he had a tanning bed(s) in at least one of his homes. It especially stands out when he is sitting or standing next to a white person who isn’t all bronzed and tanned; he looks like a boiled lobster.
You have to give Romney credit for a gutsy move. Not many Republican candidates would try to challenge Obama on the melanin issue.
Look around his eyes in the video. He looks like a reverse raccoon.
I think he borrowed Boehner’s Tub O’Orange makeup vat.
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No, it’s definitely badly applied bottle tan. it’s very uneven, even missing in places. Bits seem to be in his hair.
It looks like it was hurriedly applied with fingers.
The make up people at Univision may have even tried to fix it.
If it was real tan…Supposedly got over the last few days..when it’s autumn, how come his face was so pale all spring and summer…was there no sun during the summer?
It was bottle tan. They’ve fixed it a little, but you can still see a very unnatural line on his forehead.
He’s a political chameleon.