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Obama Won, But…
Mitt Romney let an inexplicable obsession with Benghazi get him slapped down by Candy Crowley and slam-dunked by President Obama, but last night’s debate also showed why Democrats should still worry. Let’s get this straight first: Ignore anybody who tells you these debates don’t matter. They matter big-time. This was America’s first reality-show…
Read MoreOdd Facts
The Associated Press reported a pair of odd facts the other day. In a headline the AP reported, “Obama using voter registration to stay close in NC” – then told how President Obama’s massive voter registration drive is helping him win North Carolina – by registering 250,000 new Obama voters. So far, that…
Read MoreTurnaround
Could one debate turn the presidential race upside down and give Mitt Romney a comeback win over President Obama? Yes, and there are 67.2 million reasons why. Nielsen says that’s how many people watched last Wednesday’s debate. It was “the highest-rated first election-season debate since 1980.” Of the viewers, 12 million were age 18-34…
Read MoreLet ’em Debate
Jim Lehrer deserves a break. If he made a mistake moderating the presidential debate, it wasn’t that he should have done more to rein in Romney and Obama. He should have done less. The presidential debate, with its free-flowing format, was much more informative than the gubernatorial debate, which stuck to the stiff and…
Read MoreRomney’s Risk
A country lawyer – and conservative Democrat – says Mitt Romney may have made a big mistake in the first debate, despite the quick boost he got. “Whatever you say in your opening argument, you’d better back it up when you present your case,” the lawyer said. To wit: Did Romney lie when…
Read MoreGame Change
Mitt Romney sliced and diced President Obama last night. Obama looked like he’d rather be celebrating his anniversary with Michelle. If he keeps this up, they won’t spend their next anniversary in the White House, let alone with 40 million people. See the rule from my blog yesterday (and my ever-so-accurate prediction): “Bugs Bunny…
Read MoreRomney’s Bounce
I have a feeling that Mitt Romney will get a bounce out of tonight’s debate. Not because I play the ridiculous expectations game, but because a Romney bounce is due and he can easily do well. He needs to set aside all the conflicting and confusing advice candidates always get before debates. I spent…
Read MoreHoping for a Crash
Here is a debate preview from a TAPster who combines the best qualities of Carter and me: namely, hating both parties equally: “Political dweebs everywhere will gather around their TVs Wednesday night for the much-anticipated debates between the North Carolina gubernatorial candidates and the Obama-Romney showdown. “The NC debate is meaningless. The two…
Read MoreAttacking the Polls
Republicans unhappy with Obama-leaning polls are resorting to what one wit called “the time-honored practice of making things up.” Led by Dick Morris, they engage in imaginative re-engineering of poll results to make things look better for Mitt Romney. I asked a Democratic pollster I trust about the Republican revisionism. His reply: “I…
Read MoreThe Story Line…
There is a lot of sound and fury in the press – the latest storyline on the Presidential race reads: ‘Romney Stumbles,’ ‘Romney Sinks,’ ‘Romney Running Out of Time.’ Former Bush campaign aide Mark McKinnon wrote Romney ‘has dug his hole so deeply now, I don’t know if he can pull himself out.’ In…
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