Romney is going to go soft in the town hall setting, and let Obama look like the angry guy looking to avenge the last battle

and he will destroy Rmoney very easily on that format.

And the polls will show a permanent Obama lead which will never go down.

Third debate: Foreign policy - Obama finishes Rmoney, and the moderator orders Rmoney to stop using Gist Gallop and restricted to 30 second soundbites if Rmoney continues the Gist Gallop.

Also, 5 minutes into the 3rd debate - Schieffer calls for a halt, orders both candidates not to move a inch, and Shieffer takes away Rmoney's stupid cheat sheet shows it to the audience, declare him an hostile debator, orders further restriction on Rmoney - 10 seconds only for the rest of the debate. Obama gets the rest of the time to utterly destroy Rmoney.

a decisive debate win is something that Obama simply might not be able to do, and therefore it is a mistake to declare that that is necessary. People are thinking that winning a debate is simply a matter of will, and I disagree with that. It is a matter of skill and practice and Mitt imho is too far ahead of Obama on that for Obama to catch up in a week. It in no way has anything to do with Mitt being "better" than Obama, or smarter, or anything like that, it is just that he has done a million debates in the past year, against good debaters like Newt and Rick Santorum and even Michele Bachmann. Yes, Bachmann was a good debater and one of her best tactics was making shit up. Rick Perry on the other hand was not a good debater.

right now for the next debate. The press IS going to be looking for another belly flop and when he doesn't, the story will be how much he improved over his last performance.

I also think the ratings for the second debate will be higher than normal for the same reason - people tuning in to see if he craters again.

Obama looked ineffective simply because he underplayed his.


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"You're wrong...Mr Obama". and follow that comment with a well rehearsed rebuttal that wraps a lie within plausible phrases..

Something that becomes a sound bite... expressly created to diminish the gravitas of being Pres Obama..

Maybe I don't make myself clear....

And that objective is to show the viewers that Romney can't be trusted because he is dishonest.

He has plenty of examples that he can use from things Romney said in the first debate. Obama has to use his time to show Romney's dishonesty, without blowing off the Town Hall format. So he has to respond to the questions raised, but he has to use and create all opportunities to show Romney's dishonesty.

He will need to change his message or he will lose this debate also.