Posted on 10/04/2012 8:13:44 AM PDT by Qbert
BuzzFeed called it early and the liberal media piled on: Mitt Romney won the first presidential debate in Denver. A number of liberals admitted to Obama’s defeat, calling Romney’s performance more aggressive, energetic, and confident.
Editor-in-chief Ben Smith called it at 9:42 p.m.:
Mitt Romney, trailing in the polls, needed to prove tonight that he could stand on stage with President Barack Obama as an equal and a plausible president of the United States.
He did that in the crucial first 40 minutes of Wednesday night’s debate, addressing Obama respectfully, even warmly — but then tangling with a sometimes hazy and professorial Obama on taxes and deficits.
“You don’t just pick the winners and losers — you pick the losers,” he told Obama of his energy investments, sliding time and time again into a second person singular address calculated to level the rhetorical playing field.
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Mr. Goldberg finally understands Clint Eastwood's point...
But according to The Dallas Morning News, front page, above the fold: “President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney both came across as collected and assertive in Wednesday’s first of three debates. Both stuck closely to familiar rhetoric on issues including the economy, taxes and health care.”
Obviously, according to TDMN, it was a draw.
Just heard a commentator say that if last night doesn’t raise Romney’s poll number then he is in real trouble ..Who thinks liberal polsters will raise Romney’s numbers?
“Mitt Romney...needed to prove tonight that he could stand on stage with President Barack Obama as an equal and a plausible president of the United States.”
Hmmm...I thought it was the other way around.
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My favorite comment (Christ Matthrews): “this wasn’t an MSNBC debate, was it?”
There was some dude on stage in the way, but I do think I saw a chair behind him.
I hope you didn’t PAY for that rag?
“Who thinks liberal polsters will raise Romney’s numbers?”
A lot of them would have anyway, to hedge their bets and not look like fools. I assume generally they were expecting to tighten things the closer we get, and would have pointed to the debate to justify earlier “Is it over?” polls even if it had been a draw.
The question is will they let it go all Romney’s way? No, unless it is overwhelming.
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How insensitive. They’re not “woman things.” They’re “Lady Parts things.”
One thing is for certain based on the “draw” of the debate last evening. Polls will show the number of democrats RISING, and the number of republicans falling, on the internals of up and coming poll results.
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