[tanknetter]

I think there’s a good possibility that he spent weeks planning to take the debate in a certain direction, then had to toss out his playbook in the last day or two after getting his normal early look at the Sept jobs numbers (due out tomorrow morning, so we’ll see )

I think that’s what happened with his Convention speech too. He probably had a speech written based on the general consensus that that August would see 250,000 new jobs. But then had to go to a backup speech when he found out right before the speech that there were only 96,000 new jobs (and over 300,000 people gave up and stopped looking for work).

[MNJohnnie]

I don't think that is what happened. From watching all the DNC spin masters in the Media last night, I think they were prepared for a repeat of McCain. They were not prepared for Romney at all. The Dems in the spin after the debate kept trotting out these inane absurd talking points that were completely at odds with everything we saw in the debate.

This is fairly typical for Leftists, once you take them off script they simply lack the intellectual ability to respond well. They prepared for one Romney and a completely different one showed up.

The problem for the Left is the real Obama showed up last night. No amount of repackaging can save a failed product.