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Well think about this, if ~~Newt~~ Mitt couldn’t beat ~~Mitt~~ McCain in the primaries, what makes you think he would beat Obama?

Hmm? There's always more than one way of looking at anything.

Personally, I don't think Mitt lost any points tonight with the voters who really matter. Had this debate happened tomorrow night, when there are no major league games scheduled, a lot more men would have watched, and the polling results would have come out quite differently.

Nothing that happened tonight is going to change anyone's mind, who's previously made their choice. Perhaps it mattered to that small percentage of voters who are still undecided at this late date. Dunno, but I do know that Mitt's real lead at this point in the race is commanding and insurmountable. It would take an absolute miracle for Obama to win it now.

The number of voters who are actually undecided at this point in the race is very small, and -- lets' face it -- stupid or unable to focus. All news junkies are going to be frustrated by the missed opportunities. But, to take just one example: Romney really couldn't talk about Benghazi tonight because we would have wasted time being "argumentative" in the minds of those morons who at this late date do not yet realize that the pResident and his team have lied repeatedly and desperately. All the points we're going to get out of Libya with marginally informed voters were squeezed out this week.

This debate is entirely about optics and again tonight the pResident yet again drove down the one single area where he has had an advantage, and that is on the subject of likability. He was even more unlikable tonight than he was in debate #2, and dumbass rejoinders about horses and bayonets only helped his cause with the same idjits who believe that Biden "won" with his Superior Clown routine.

No, he didn't.

0bama's team tried to create a picture of Romney as an aloof rich boy who doesn't care about other people. That image -- which cost them $200 million to create has been destroyed. All that they had left was an attempt in the closing days to portray Romney as Bush III. Tonight, Romney gave them no chance to even start that portrait. Romney did fine. He looked good, he wasn't a kook or a warmonger, he made himself look more "presidential" than the sitting pResident, and he made 0bama look petulant and snarky.

Low information/Poor Attention Span voters want a new President. But they also fear change. Romney showed them tonight that he is going to focus on Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs -- that was the point of continually returning the debate to the point that America can't be a superpower if we aren't an economic superpower -- and he isn't going to get America into another war. They have nothing to fear. Now they can vote for change. That was the strategy, and with the remaining voters who can possibly be moved it will work.