DENVER — The solid verdict for Mitt Romney following the first presidential debate — on style points, at a minimum — has pushed the Obama campaign to rethink strategy and the Republican team to reload.
The much-anticipated debate at the University of Denver on Wednesday surprised advisers in both camps, both because of Obama’s passive approach, and for Romney’s aggressive, crisp, and confident attack.
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So Romney supporters are all enthused by his performance Wednesday night. They thought the vote was going to be held 5 minutes after Mr. Romney walked off the stage. The problem is all his promulgations turn out to be very different than actual facts. He has already begun to backtrack. It makes him look foolish and more omniously for his candidacy very untrustworthy. So good for him. He gave it his all and thought he could deceive the people 100% or at least 51% of the people all the time. Sorry Mitt, it just didn't work out that way.
Mrs. Obama has been in Ohio every day since Ohio started early voting. Mrs. Obama has been standing on a platform with a loud microphone screaming at voters to go to the polls. FAST - FAST, before they can consider what the 'real Obama' will give them with another 4 years.
The only debate that matters is the first debate. The whole nation saw Romney as a capable replacement. And Obama is done. They know it, even if you don't...
I noticed that Pres. Obama was calling Mitt Romney a lier....the only lier is Pres. Obama...how many promises has he lied about.....The new video showing him pandering to the black vote in a southern accent...trying to divide races back 2002. The dirty campaign has started and mud is being thrown by the DNC...Chicago style here we come.
Not only is Obama telling lies - but the Democrats have been throwing lies out from the day they determined Gov. Mitt Romney is a very serious challenger to their boy - Obama.
Gov. Mitt Romney is head & shoulders above Obama with his intellect, integrity, personality and compassion. Now - that is the truth.
Obama was dumb-founded on stage - and goes out the next day talking about "Big Bird," Go figure!
I thought Tagg Romney was the happy one after single handedly stopping a hospice for sick and dying elderly people from being build in Belmont, MA. I think this tell you a lot about the Romney's since they slammed that huge mormon temple in Belmont. The Romney's are phoney's who could care less about the middle class. They just want to incraese their wealth. Google, Romney, Hospice, Belmont
The Democrats are as thick as wasps with more lies following the knock-out punch of Obama.
I'm surprised to hear everyone say this was such a victory for Romney He continues to avoid details where specifics would clearly have made for a solid victory AND he misrepresented enough facts that one could clearly have deducted points This newspaper, among others seems to have their mind made up, and I strongly disagree
Simply - open your ears, stop talking & listen to Mitt Romney's words.
The day after the debate Obama was making allegations 1) "The real Mitt Romney was not on stage:"
Strange as that may seem - there were robno-Democrats nodding their heads in agreement.
Obama and the media have been running against the straw-man caricature of Romney they created for the past 15 months. When the real Romney stands-up and confirms his positions, it shatters the myth they created. And the Obama team doesn't know what to do now except to say he is lying and is not the same guy they have been running against for 15 months. Well, part of that is true, Democrats. He was never the guy you created, and you all got so used to your echo chamber (with willing help from the media) that you lost all sense of reality and the real man. As for cutting tax rates without hurting the middle class, the part you are missing is the part you are always missing: tax revenues increase as tax rates decrease. Proven many times. Reagan proved it. Weld proved it. Stop pretending there is some huge gap. The gap goes away as you put people to work and they pay taxes. No one will ever get a job via taxation. Never. It simply doesn't work that way Democrats.
The picture of Obama above this article has the teleprompter clipped from it. I wonder why?
"Obama Team Recalculating" says the Globe's headline. --What does that mean? I think that means that the Obama Labor Dept. and Hilda Solis, "RECALCULATED" Friday's NFP report. Even though there were only 114,000 new jobs created last month, (which was exactly the expected count) the Unemployment rate suddenly dropped from 8.2% to 7.8%! Well, the only way to produce that mathematical feat is to "Recalculate" the total number of "jobs" available, by making the total number of jobs far less. --And that exactly what the Obama mathematicians did. They RECALCULATED the jobs number. Then Obama and his Chicago boys claimed that, Abra Cadabra, the economy was suddenly getting better! --Here's a prediction: Althougth there will be plenty of layoffs next month, especially from military contractors like Lockheed Martin, the unemployment rate will fall to 3.3%!