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Thursday, October 04, 2012

CHECK THE CHAMP'S HIGHLIGHTS REEL. The next Romney-Obama debate will be a townhall with undecideds selected by Gallup. You can count on a couple of things. There will be gotcha questions aimed at Romney, and Obama will be far more aggressive against Romney. The outcome can't be taken for granted. Still, there will be no teleprompter and when Obama gets aggressive, he also has a way of looking and sounding mean. Plus, Romney has been a CEO and is therefore experienced in shareholder meetings where tough questions are asked. Obama not so much with his cherry-picked audiences. Chances are, after the Ryan-Biden debate, the Obama-Biden ticket will already be 0 for 2.

Worse, ratings for debates tend to decline after the first one. Obama needs more than a draw in Debate 2, and he can no longer count on a victory in the final foreign policy debate. The Benghazi mess is a mess indeed.

As I said before, be patient. Wait. It's not over till it's over. But something has happened to the myth of Obama inevitability.


Cross your fingers. Rocky didn't win that fight. And we still have to win this one.

P.S. My wife thinks I should take a bow for this remark from the previous post: "Nobody knows what voters are looking for in the Romney vs. Obama event. Not you, not me. Nobody. Attacks and deft lines? Policy specifics? A new Reagan? Maybe. Or maybe not. Maybe they're looking for Obama's Mussolini jaw, his stutters, his constant droning reliance on the pronouns "I" and "me." Maybe Romney's blandness and unwillingness to get personal are exactly what an electorate tired of hateful invective wants."

Yeah, the debate was a perfect storm of all those things. But I didn't guess that would happen. Didn't.

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