He played the nice guy, but made his points as well. He didn’t want to come off hawkish and give the left anything to hurt him with this close to the election. He looked and acted presidential with a cool head - obama on the other hand resorted to calling Mitt a liar and trying cute little talking points. He was angry and over bearen in his effort to not get smacked around by Mitt again. Epic fail!
Mitt finally perfected the way to prevent the other guy from interrupting, by simply continuing to talk in a pronounced fashion to the audience and not engaging the interrupter. Paul Ryan messed that up.
However Mitt made another booboo in asking Obama a direct question, which Obama seized on, cutting into Romney’s time and taking the opportunity to bloviate on for a couple minutes on several different topics unrelated to Romney’s question.