Mitt Romney just won the election in last night’s (October 3) debate

Tea Party Tribune ^ | October 4, 2012 | Jonathon Moseley

[Moseley]

... The main reason in my view that Obama was crushed last night is that his entire campaign is based on LYING about Romney, and expecting everyone to just accept and believe his lies. When it was obvious that Obama was running against a ‘straw-man’ caricature misrepresenting Republican Mitt Romney, Obama collapsed and looked terrible.

It wasn’t a question of delivery or demeanor or bringing his ‘A’ game.

It was that Obama’s entire campaign against Romney is based upon spreading falsehoods about Romney, which Romney VERY effectively countered. (Many Republicans would have been in the same situation and failed to counter the lies effectively.)

Obama’s entire campaign and message is a house of cards built upon mischaracterizing Romney and Republicans, so when Obama was challenged, his entire message collapsed, he looked dishonest and untrustworthy, and he didn’t know what to do. He was befuddled.

Again, this is not a matter of appearances. This is not about delivery. This is not about being prepared or being a good debater. The problem was the fundamental nature of Obama’s campaign and message, falsehoods about Romney, which gave Romney the easy opening (though Romney did it extremely well) to yank the rug out from under Obama and cause Obama’s house of cards to collapse.

Romney clearly rejected the normal GOP approach of hiding under your bed when Democrats raise negative attacks, and hoping they will go away. Too much of the GOP is dominated by this thinking that if you just pretend you didn’t hear the attacks, maybe other people will forget the attacks as well. If you hide your head behind the couch, with the rest of your body showing, people can’t see you, and the problem will just go away. That’s how GOP self-proclaimed experts want to run campaigns.

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[GilGil]

It is my understanding that 60 million watched on TV exclusive of the internet. The total was probably between 70-80 million watched yesterday. Nice!

[mware]

The game is far from over, but it has been my experience that most people watch one or two debates. Romney did very well with voters last night.

I teach in a middle school, and the one word they used in describing Romney last night was "presidential".