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_{Numerous interruptions and flagrant breaking of debate rules by Barack Obama. Barack certainly watched with interest as Joe Biden interrupted, talked over Mr. Ryan, sneered, laughed, mocked, and got angry. Those behaviors played very poorly with independents and especially with women -- most of who have dated, or even married, a man who behaved like this. Those behaviors, however, played very well with the far-left liberal base. Since the Pravda Press is mostly composed of that far-left brand of American, the written reviews the next day were glowingly in favor of Biden. Barack noticed that. Further, the Town Hall format this evening lends itself well to "planned but spontaneous" interruptions. The only indicator that this won't be tolerated seemed to come from Candy Crowley, the moderator, who declared that she will play a much more active and aggressive role in controlling the content of the discussion, and possibly the behavior of the candidates. Too, there is a chance that Obama will overplay this tactic.}

You raise 4 excellent points. But I'll comment on #1.

I don't trust Ms. Crowly. Not at all. I fully expect Gov. Romney will have to engage not only Nobama, but will have to fight an uphill battle against a very biased moderator. Nobama had a 4 minite time advantage in the last debate. I wonder what type of advantages he'll get tonight?

The problem for the moderators here, is that — seemingly — they are somewhat hesitant to appear overly biased. If Crowley follows in this trend, I expect no overt problem from her. A subtle one, to be sure, but nothing overt.

“Nobama had a 4 minite time advantage in the last debate. I wonder what type of advantages he’ll get tonight?”

I see that as giving the audience four more minutes to comprehend what a truly empty jerk he is.