Manipulation?

[marked50]

One observation that my wife and I have not seen any comment on is that the first three topics of debate (the economy) were in Romney’s favorite territory and Obama’s least successful. Obama came out having to play defense against his opponent who gave new meaning to the term, “ ‘bully’ pulpit”.

The fact that there were no topics or questions about Obama’s stronger policies (women’s issues, immigration, education, gay rights, etc.,) has me wondering if some kind of backroom deal was struck to boost Romney’s favorability and/or to assure that ad money flowing to the media wouldn’t drop off due to one candidate’s overwhelming poll numbers. Wonder how the Obama campaign could have let that happen.

[Whovian]

1. Did not consider that. Good points.

[nc4bo]

2. I thought the candidates or the campaigns had no control over the actual questions?

I'll wait to see who knows the answer.