The fact that Mitty was debating two opponents - Bammy and a supposedly neutral but antagonistic and ugly moderator - made Mitty look like an underdog under attack by both the president and a corrupt media. That it was two against one and Mitty still managed to fight them to a draw, if not outright win (which I think he did) makes him seem that much more cool, collected and in command.
Corrupt Candy trying to save Bammy’s bacon on Libya was just the icing on the cake - an unadorned and unspinnable episode of blatant, outrageous media bias for all to see.
It was a disaster for the 0 campaign, despite the yowling and howling of the liberal lapdogs. The very same lapdogs, by the way, who were charmed by Biden’s mugging and smirking.
Romney was able to lay out substantive answers on the economy and that is what the focus group said would determine who they were voting for.
What specifics did Obama lay out to address: the 23 mill unemployed people, $16 trillion in debt, $4 gas, no budget in 3 years, the poverty rate at it’s highest since 1960’s, median incomes dropping 7.3% since taking office, 47 million on food stamps, and the doubling of the deficit?
Those were the questions that the focus groups and the undecideds were looking for and did not get from Obama and what they did get from Romney.
I despised Crowley, too. She stated she would not be a fly on the wall prior to her “performance”. Instead she was a giant “black hole” trying to absorb every comment or rebuttal Romney would make into oblivion. Every time Romney would insist on making a point she’d say there will be lots of time at the end...Romney got no time at the end.
Schieffer plays it straight at least normally so think final debate will be fair unlike Crowley, but it’s going to be a snoozer with foreign policy and few watching.
Last night’s debate had HALF the number of viewers as the first, and we may only have 20 million or so watch the last one.