Look for Obama to pull a switchblade on Romney now. Gutter politics is all Obama knows. Last night, he was out of his element because someone decided he should use civility in dealing with Mitt. That's foreign to Obama and it showed.
That's absolutely right. He lost last night not out of some brilliant master strategy - he lost because he's an incompetent boob. However, I will say that he can only go up in the media's estimation. His awful performance last night gives his lapdogs in the media plenty of room to talk about his comeback in the next two debates.
ON Fox they were discussing watching Obama for his typical body language showing he was frustrated, and how he had toned it down.