# Hanky Panky: Did Mitt Cheat At the Debate?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hanky-panky-did-mitt-cheat-at-the-debate/636930 "2012-10-06T19:43:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hanky-panky-did-mitt-cheat-at-the-debate/636930/14 "2012-10-06T20:37:04Z")

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> [@Anduril](#):
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> Wow! Still can’t believe your Messiah lost in the debate? It HAS to be that Romney cheated. You’re pathetic!

Interestingly, the OP is the only person in this thread who agrees that the allegations are serious. And elsewhere she relates:

> [@Barack Obama is a terrorist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-is-a-terrorist/636378/125):
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> I am seriously considering writing myself or someone I know in. I am so disheartened by the choices this year.

There is a wide gap between evidence and conclusion. This Messiah stuff represents a classic application of modern conservative logic. To wit: I wish that P were true.

Therefore P is true. It’s more than a little odd given the old vids for George W Bush praising him as the one guy having the courage to bring up Jesus Christ during the national debates. Now _that’s_ batshit hagiography.

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