the truth. EVERYTHING Romney says is a lie and is difficult to listen to. BUT I still think Obama is making a mistake in his delivery and the way he holds himself on stage.

He also sound like he agrees with the President but he has the better way, even though it is a do nothing but the same old same old.

I'm saying that the assholes often win solely because they speak louder and are unwilling to back down. The nice guy who follows all the rules, and rebuts ALL of his LIES with nothing but the truth but doesn't do so with force and a certain amount of their own contempt are often the ones who lose.

because Romney is either an asshole, or a pussy, and dicks fuck assholes and pussies.

I want our President to fuck Romney up, down, and sidewise

Obama is ahead enough in the states that matter.

Then yeah, maybe so.

He hasn't gotten it.

isn't going as well for Obama as it should.

And this is his supposed strength, the economy. Yeah, right.

Rmoney's sandbagged himself for so long all he had to do was to keep from spewing epithets to make himself come off as a win.

gotten to me.

if they possibly can.

feel like I am watching a different debate. Romney is coming across as too arrogant, it may apeal to his base, the ( RW who are attracted to authoritarian Daddy-figures) but it is going to turn off women and independants. His interupting and taking over just makes him look like an asshole, not a leader. Look at his freaking face on the split screen for gawdsakes, he looks like a guy on trial for putting his neighbor in a wood chipper. Winning? Jeeezus.

The public by and large DOES want to see someone be a bit of an asshole. I don't mean a TOTAL asshole, but someone who is overconfident and even a bit condescending in their belief in themselves is very attractive to the "masses". And as sad as it is I think it's important not to forget the importance of your image to the "base mass".

What's the spin on that, then?

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Dumbya didn't do that either, but he won anyway. Obama looks like a president who knows what he's doing. Willard looks like an arrogant jackass who steamrolls anyone and everyone, including allies. Not someone you want handling a crisis of any sort.

Just by Obama smiling and being chummy with Romney. But, I still didn't see a human.

Romney needed a KO and he didn't get this. Obama could have let Romney talk the whole debate. Romney had no zingers and no KO.

He loses because he comes off like a very unlikable person.
Twitchy evasive dishonest. Lipsmacky.

aided and abetted by a non-moderating moderator.

in the last minutes to cut off President Obama.

Obama dominated on a level of facts and policy but these things are about style, and he just doesn't seem energetic.

- I've noticed that four of my Facebook friends have "liked" the Mitt Romney page. None of my friends have "liked" the President Obama page in that same time frame. Guess that rather confirms your analysis about what the public responds to.

third party, but Romney just scared the sh%t out of me. I am voting Obama.

And I suspect he will tweak his demeanour for the next debate.

Shrill, even.

As if he needs a Zanax... Or something.

A side effect of that is that Obama's cool and collected attitude next to him, which is the RIGHT attitude btw, comes off looking like he's asleep.

He's for investment in education, social security, medicare. He's against Obamacare but going to see to it that we all get access to healthcare anyway. He's not for tax cuts for the rich. Hell, if you just lie like that it's not so hard to do well.

He looked sharp and smooth and lied his balls off with aplomb. President Obama stutters and stammers a lot and let too many opportunities to refute go by. You can tell all that prep paid off.

Sorry, it is what it is.

walk out to the podium and string together a few coherent sentences to exceed my expectations.

Which one was most presidential? Not Romney. By far.

so we have a horse race again.

That said, it was as boring as watching paint peel off of the wall.

Romney was very energized and Obama seemed a bit tired. I was disappointed that Obama wasn't more assertive and really let Romney hold the floor for most of the night. Carville is saying that "Romney looked like he wanted to be there, and Obama looked like he didn't wan't to be there." I agree.

Nevertheless, the campaign is not over and I think Obama needs to be more assertive (and yes, a little bit louder) going forward.

WTF was Obama thinking??