I knew in first few minutes Romney was winning, and would probably win. He did. I had VERY low expectations for Romney, and he performed VERY well. Missed a few openings, IMO, but looked and sounded well. Obama looked ticked off whenever he wasn’t talking. It also didn’t help when he looked pleadingly for Lehrer to stop Romney. Made him look like a big baby.
The really good thing is that Romney and his debate team are smart enough and professional enough to learn something from even a win, where his weaknesses might be, what Hussein (rather his team) might have learned about his weaknesses, and how better to handle biased moderators. Hussein’s team might be as good, but Hussein himself is too disorganised and too egotistical to learn much, because everything is always someone else’s fault. Plus he’s just plumb lazy. He got away with it last time with a deferential McCain, no record he was made to defend, and the media-supported “aura” of phony charisma, and Romney’s not letting him get away with the bullcrap this time, while still being civil.