POLL: How will the first debate go?

[Logical]

My worry is Obama has not debated for a while. Romney has been debating a lot.

I give the edge to Romney. He is horrible on a stump speech but not a bad debater. And will have some zingers.

On Jeopardy, Obama would destroy him. In the debates, hard to say.

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	Obama will destroy Romney
	5 (50%)
	Obama will edge Romney by a little bit
	3 (30%)
	Obama and Romney will tie
	2 (20%)
	Romney will edge Obama by a little bit
	0 (0%)
	Romney will destroy Obama
	0 (0%)
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[mucifer]

1. Is this how we perceive it or how the media perceives it? nt

[Logical]

3. Good point. But I know I will be 100% biased.

[slackmaster]

2. Other - The debate will be a Rorschach Blot opon which people will project their own wishes

[BootinUp]

4. The Mittster will be destroyed.

I know that usually debates don't have clear winners, but the way Romney has been going, I predict an epic fail.

[monmouth]

5. Mitt will put on his Eddie Haskell impression and fail big time..n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Obama will destroy $tench, but media will declare it a 'toss up'. I will actually toss up

shortly afterwards.

[treestar]

10. Yes, exactly

[Chorophyll]

7. Obama will reduce Romney to a heap of disconnected cogs and smoking wires,

but the media will say he didn't.

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. Republicans will declare victory because Romney doesn't crawl away crying like a baby

The media will announce that Obama Debate performance may work against him.

[Logical]

9. +1, you are correct!

[railsback]

11. Romney's whole plan is to blame Obama for everything

That's not going to fly with anybody except 'baggers. Obama, clear win.

[stevenleser]

12. Debates do not lend themselves to massive victories anymore

As Palin demonstrated, you do not have to answer the questions anymore, you can, in the words of her handlers, 'pivot' to saying something on a topic more comfortable for you.

[begin_within]

13. Mitt will only regurgitate talking points and zingers,

never actually debating or even answering a question put to him. Just like Palin.
When it's over, right-wing pundits will praise Mitt for being "on message."

[XemaSab]

14. I think Obama's going to eat $tench's lunch

Obama's going to bust out fact, figures, names, dates, times...

...while Rmoney's going to come up with three new policy positions in his opening statement and the rest will be nothing but platitudes.

The media may come up with some horseshit about how Rmoney demonstrated leadership and certitude or somesuch crap, but I think his big loss is going to be with the teabaggers. Right now they're on the anti-Obama train, but Rmoney's failure to distinguish his policies from Obama's policies might just keep a lot of them home on election day.

[whistler162]

16. about 2 hours or so.