Doubtless Obama had a better outing last night than at the first debate, but as he was nearly comatose then, that’s a rather low bar to get over.
Predictably, mainstream media outlets proclaimed his victory all the day long today, though a few nodded toward truth acknowledging that it was a narrow one according to polls.
I think that in the sense of Obama stopping his liberal base from doing something drastic with a vat of Flavor Aid, it was a victory. See, though, that’s highly problematic. Liberals didn’t put Obama in. Independents did. Liberals won’t swing the election in three weeks. Independents will. Obama gets all the liberals, without exception. In 2008, he got most of the independents too, and even picked off a few conservatives.
Those are the people he needs again, and he’s not getting them. (Those numbers are considerably less favorable, dudes and dolls.)
Moderator Candy Crowley mostly deserves the derision she’s getting for so nakedly displaying her bias toward Obama. I think it’s a shame, though, because she went to pieces all in the last third. I really thought she was doing a fine job until then. She said sorry today, but, you know, classic model. Make the mistake on the front page; apologize on the back. Sigh.
Last night was at worst a push for Romney with the people who matter. Now, we’re headed into a debate on foreign policy. Obama has offered no vision for a second term, and his sycophants think Trapper Keepers are Romney’s kryptonite.
I have a song in my heart.
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Okay, so even if Obama did call Benghazi a terrorist attack in his Rose Garden speech (which, if you follow the same logic, he said those killed in Benghazi were already buried in Arlington), he *still* ran off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser immediately afterwards.
Did you see the latest Gallup poll? Romney +6. With their skewed turnout model, it’s probably more like Romney +10. Somebody is swinging hard towards Romney. Gotta be independents.
So…the story coming out of the debates seems to be the “binders of women” story.
The Romney campaign should instantly end this discussion by publicly asking how equal the pay is amongst the staffers at the current administration’s White House.
And that, as you retweeted during the debate, should have been brought up then. It was a slow pitch home run ball just tossed up and Romney missed. I cannot believe he didn’t go there.
‘seester, I don’t get them. Do they want to move on even when someone they like is in?
Miria, don’t trouble the god-king with unpleasant facts like that.
Jenny, it’s lining up to suit me. Back to the more formal structure for the third debate, and the topic is foreign policy? That sounds very, very good.
Scott, that was one of two things he didn’t even get a piece of, the other one obviously being the Libya debacle. That’s OK. It was still a fine outing.