[FredZarguna]

The number of voters who are actually undecided at this point in the race is very small, and -- lets' face it -- stupid or unable to focus. All news junkies are going to be frustrated by the missed opportunities. But, to take just one example: Romney really couldn't talk about Benghazi tonight because we would have wasted time being "argumentative" in the minds of those morons who at this late date do not yet realize that the pResident and his team have lied repeatedly and desperately. All the points we're going to get out of Libya with marginally informed voters were squeezed out this week.

This debate is entirely about optics and again tonight the pResident yet again drove down the one single area where he has had an advantage, and that is on the subject of likability. He was even more unlikable tonight than he was in debate #2, and dumbass rejoinders about horses and bayonets only helped his cause with the same idjits who believe that Biden "won" with his Superior Clown routine.

No, he didn't.

0bama's team tried to create a picture of Romney as an aloof rich boy who doesn't care about other people. That image -- which cost them $200 million to create has been destroyed. All that they had left was an attempt in the closing days to portray Romney as Bush III. Tonight, Romney gave them no chance to even start that portrait. Romney did fine. He looked good, he wasn't a kook or a warmonger, he made himself look more "presidential" than the sitting pResident, and he made 0bama look petulant and snarky.

Low information/Poor Attention Span voters want a new President. But they also fear change. Romney showed them tonight that he is going to focus on Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs -- that was the point of continually returning the debate to the point that America can't be a superpower if we aren't an economic superpower -- and he isn't going to get America into another war. They have nothing to fear. Now they can vote for change. That was the strategy, and with the remaining voters who can possibly be moved it will work.

[Windflier]

0bama's team tried to create a picture of Romney as an aloof rich boy who doesn't care about other people. That image -- which cost them $200 million to create has been destroyed. All that they had left was an attempt in the closing days to portray Romney as Bush III.

Tonight, Romney gave them no chance to even start that portrait. Romney did fine. He looked good, he wasn't a kook or a warmonger, he made himself look more "presidential" than the sitting pResident, and he made 0bama look petulant and snarky.

BINGO!

Naturally, Freepers wanted red meat, but our night was in the first debate. We've already been served. Last night was for the low information, just-now-tuning-in voters. For them, Romney needed to project an image of calm, confidence, knowledge, steadiness, safety, and courage. He did that in spades, and therefore won the night, as far as I'm concerned. He looked, sounded, and acted like a president, which is what the remaining undecideds needed to see.