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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.

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On Talkback Live, one of the favorite ways of doing this was, “Let me rephrase the question,....” Then they would load the question with a false choice or bias where the only thing someone could do was to not answer the question. Then the CNN “Facilitator” would claim that the respondent didn't answer the question.