Actually, I suspect that even more people will be watching the second debate of these two. I do agree that Mitt answered a lot of the concerns of over 60Million folks, but they will be telling their friends who didn’t see it the first time.
I will be watching myself (and I hate those things) just to see how each of them fare, though I know my vote won’t change.
Then, if Obama is not slaughtered, I think that there will be just as many watching the third, though I don’t think there will be many minds changed by it. If he is slaughtered, the viewership for that will be only the ambulance chasers who love blood and gore, and if Zero does well then, it won’t have much effect anyway. If he does mediocre to poor, there will be a bandwagon effect for Mitt.
I think this year all the debates are going to matter a lot.
The townhall format will be much easier on Obama since there will be multitudes of questions from the idiot undecideds... Lehrer more or less let the debate flow Lincoln Douglas style... Not going to happen in a town hall