[Utmost Certainty]

CD, are you kidding me? Have you seen this guy debate? Have you seen how they can barely stand that tired, old, drug and booze addled hag up?

Don't think debate performance is going to matter much. Even Romney managed to stomp Obama in the debates, and look how well that election panned out.

[goldstategop]

The demographics in this country have changed.

Look at Bernie - a mainstream socialist beat Hillary who scraped through on points.

That has never happened before in our history.

[JediJones]

Romney only won the first debate. And his polls went up big after that. Then he failed to clearly best Obama in the next two.

Cruz could really slaughter Hillary in debates. But he has to polish up a little. I think he lost a lot of late decider votes because of flubbing some moments in last week’s debate and not having any knock-it-out-of-the-park answers like he did at the CNBC shooting gallery.

[grania]

Even Romney managed to stop Obama in the debates

Romney's a real smooth talker, so it was no surprise. The question is why did he throw the last debate (JMHO)

[I-ambush]

Romney stomped Obama in the first debate, then put on kids gloves for the remainder of the campaign.