2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Roy Karrde]

Roy, you're just upset because Romney didn't score the second knockout punch that you and the rest of his supporters expected him to.

The CNN poll is there in black and white.

Edit: Look, Roy. The only way a debate can truly be fair is if it has a moderator that is truly neutral and impartial.

Unfortuately, while such people might exist in a perfect world, they are nonexistant in this one.

Yes the CNN poll is there in black and white showing that on issues, Romney ran away with it, something you cannot deny.

I'm not sure that really matters too much to the people who watched the debate. Romney overplayed his hand by insisting it took Obama 14 days to call it an act of terror, and it really fucked up his point and his performance suffered. No surprise that Obama came off stronger during the debate, when he ran circles round Romney on points Romney really should be winning on. It also doesn't look that great that he's nit-picking over points like this which makes it look really obvious he is trying to politicise the deaths of four Americans.

And if debates happened in a vacuum you would be right. However they do not, like in 2004 people who watched the debate thought that Bush won, when they watched the post debate they thought that Kerry won. When you have people hammering Obama and hammering Candy for this, it can only serve to hurt Obama. Because lets admit it, the last thing Obama wants to talk about is how he waited 14 days to call it terrorism.