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Anyone that has ever seen Talkback Live in person (an old CCN afternoon show) where “regular people” in the audience asked questions to the guest will recognize that this is neither a town hall or random in nature. CNN will specifically choose questions and tone to tell a story of their choosing. Candy Crowley is a strong partisan and the debate will be pure theater. Romney will need to overcome the bias that will attempt to slant the debate. I thought Ryan left a ton of meat on the table because he did not overcome the bias truncation of his answers and the repeated interruptions to his points very well. He should have come back to those points after the next questions and INSISTED that his points be made, not dismissed by others.

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Yep. The whole thing will be nothing but a lifeline for Obama to help him come back from his disastrous performance in the previous debate.

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Romney should have never agreed to a Town Hall debate. Obama is a community organizer. This is where he shines. This will be pure theater, probably set up like a meeting using the Delphi technique.

When Crowley says that she can intervene and ask, “What about x, y and z, she means that she will try to belittle the questioner, and make the questioner seem out of touch, as well as Romney, if she doesn’t like the question. In other words, she might take a question that sounds as though it is pro-Romney, and then add questions of her own that defend Obama and turn the question back on Romney.