come on. A Republican website.
No one can “debate” a LIAR.
Mitt Romney (62%, 64 Votes)
Barack Obama (38%, 40 Votes)
Romney didn’t look strong.
Mitt Romney (40%, 308 Votes)
And this is an RLC site?!
Ouch - BO up 63% to 37% for Romney.
If this had been the only debate, Obama would be reelected. Romney pretty much agreed with Obama on all the major questions and he looked less confident when he did so. This was Obama’s strongest debate of the 3. Part of that was the big built-in advantage of having much more real-world experience on foreign policy than Romney does. Part of that was Romney’s style of blurting out a few quickly stated disagreements on Obama’s foreign policy while getting into much longer passages that basically defended and praised Obama’s foreign policy.
However, in the context of all 3 debates, Romney still comes out ahead, since he won the first one overwhelmingly. Romney played it safe this time, which meant that he gave up the chance to make a new surge in the polls but he also protected himself from taking a big hit in the polls. He clearly decided since he was ahead in the polls that he would try to lock in his gains and not double down. Romney also calculated that since people overwhelmingly will be voting on the economy and not on foreign policy, it wasn’t worth risking taking a hit on a foreign policy disagreement when he was already running ahead on the economy. Time will tell if the strategy was successful or not, but it seems sure to keep the election a close nail-biter for the time being.
FReeEEeePED:
This poll needs Freeping BAD!!
Who won the Presidential debate tonight? 10-22-2012
Barack Obama (63%, 838 Votes)
Mitt Romney (37%, 496 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,334
FR lost me. No access. nov 6th this site will be frozen rock dead solid
Another missed opportunity for Romney was in not explaining how energy independence with oil here at home will allow us to stop being so involved in the Middle East, and would have prevented us from being involved in Iraq going all the way back to the 1990s.
As FOX pointed out, Obama seemed to have made at least 3 or 4 clear factual misstatements, maybe more than anyone had done in the prior 3 debates. So the post-debate fact checking should result in some points being deducted from Obama.
Barack Obama (56%, 989 Votes)
Mitt Romney (44%, 773 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,762
50/ 50.
Mitt was Reaganesque this evening.