She made a point of refusing to ask who they were voting for because “I understand that’s a personal choice.”
We’ve had four debates, 360 minutes, and not one second on the environment. (OK, Willard used the totally dishonest term “clean coal” in the first debate.)
40,000 daily heat records, 8.8 million acres burned, oceans denuded of entire species, and yet zero discussion of the potential doom of human life.
Could it be that $150 million of political ads by the carbon industries have stifled even thoughts of what they are doing to us?
Hannity is making the point that the marines still use bayonets. He’s going to pull a muscle with all of that reaching.
They didn’t not like the tone at times, laughed at other moments.
I agree with Richard Parker. I think if he believes conservatives are in the bag for him, he’s gonna have a big surprise. Not that they are going to vote for Obama, just that they haven’t been very excited about voting for Mitt. I think all the poll movement lately was from conservatives getting excited about Romney after the first debate. I don’t believe he can run ads softening his position on abortion or trying to soften his policy positions without taking a bigger hit in base support than he will gain elsewhere.
I think D.L. Hughley described Romney better than any other I’ve heard when talking about meeting him in 2007: “The guy seemed like a Mercedes Benz dealer.” Bingo. Hole-in-one. Slick, tan, glib and willing to do what it takes to make the sale.
As I predicted. Sort of.
He actually was less moderate and more bellicose than I thought he would be. But this time Obama was prepared for the Mit-flops.
The ones on Fox were really emotional and angry when answering questions.
Also a personal choice? Sitting on a fricken’ panel during a presidential debate.
Any updates on where the polls are sitting on those that have already voted? I understand that there was a big Obama advantage early on, is that still showing?
14 24-hour news cycles to complete before Election Day!!!
Agree. The danger of moving to the middle after the nomination isn’t that your base is going to run off and vote for the other guy or even vote third party. The risk is that they’ll stay home.
Didn’t see the whole thing and my expectation was that this was Obama’s strongest position and he should wipe the floor with Romney but…have to say I thought it was pretty close to even. To me that’s really bad news for Obama who really needs to be pulling ahead at this point. :(. Guess we’ll see what, if anything changes in the polls. This one might go down to the wire. Still expect Obama to win, but starting to think it will be close…and not as confident as I was a few weeks ago that Obama is going to walk away with this thing.
Fun with sample sizes: CBS poll says Obama trounced Romney, CNN poll says he won close.
Different types of polls, as I read it. CBS was undecided voters only, CNN poll was registered debate watchers. CNN talking heads even made a point to highlight that “we have found that more Republicans watch debates than Democrats”.
::raises hand::
Excuse me, but is there any chance I can get a hit of what this guy is smoking?
I think they need to do away with the senior citizen-moderators (Schieffer, Lehrer). Or maybe they need to do away with the male moderators? 
All I know is Bob Schieffer certainly didn’t seem like he was in control of that debate. He just came off as an old ‘fuddy duddy’.
shrug Somebody is going to complain about the moderating no matter what they do. People said Crowley was too engaged; no they say Schieffer was too weak.
With the exception of his crazy “Israel is about to bomb Iran, quick, what do you do?!” hypothetical, I thought Schiefer did a fine job. He kept track of the candidates’ allotted speaking times, interrupted and re-directed the candidates where he could, and kept things more or less balanced. But it was a more restrained debate than the first one, of course, so he didn’t really need to flex much.
Well yeah, but some people suck.