Last night, Mitt Romney lost. Yes, you read that right.

[identify]

Great article here from a nice chap over the pond.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100183875/last-night-mitt-romney-lost-yes-you-read-that-right/

[Tx4obama]

1. Nice article. Thank you for posting it :) n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Lawrence O'Donnell thinks so too..

I hope someone posts the Last Word video from earlier tonight.

[Cha]

3. Thanks for the realistic viewpoint, identify..

there were some rw comments but I found this among them..

Mitt Romney did not provide a compelling narrative or vision last night. Other than the one exception "firing big bird" there was absolutely nothing he said that was memorable. He behaved like a petulant child. His demeanor was belligerent, aggressive & frantic. He was smug & his smirks were a put-off. Romney's falsehoods & lies in-conjunction with the aforementioned add up to a big fat zero as far as Iam concerned.

Granted President Obama was not as aggressive as I would have liked him to be, but he won on substance, presidential demeanor, honesty and calmness.

President Obama delivered the best zinger of the night which pretty much sums up what this debate is about:

"And at some point the American people have to ask themselves: Is the reason Gov. Romney is keeping all these plans to replace [Obamacare, Medicare, etc.] secret, because they are too good?"

Touche'!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. TY for posting!

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This is Romney’s greatest weakness as a candidate. He lacks compassion. He comes across as one of those big businessman in old Westerns who turns up at the farm and explains to the widow that he needs to buy her land to make way for his new railroad, and if she knows what’s good for her, she’ll take him up on his kind offer. CNN’s post election poll found that two thirds of those who watched thought Romney put in the most effective performance. But only 46 per cent said they found him more likeable than Obama. Not only did Romney not land the knockout blow, he failed to close the empathy gap.

ETA: Welcome to DU identify

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Absolutely on point!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

10. TY, I concur.

[oldhippydude]

5. welcome aboard.... thanks for the post...n/t

[Raine]

6. I agree, THANKS for posting this! nt

[SamKnause]

7. Romney lost

I agree 100%.

If lying is winning, we live in an Orwellian world.

Romney was aggressive, abusive, arrogant and rude.

He told so many lies it was impossible to keep track of them all.

If this what his supporters admire, the U.S. is in dire trouble.

I know most politicians spin the truth, but there was no truth from the Romney camp.

To admire this man for his performance last night is just insanity.

[PATRICK]

9. Speak loudly

and wave a little stick. Romney staved off collapse. Still pandering to base, something Bush did while losing two elections within fraud range and the stretch of media support. That's what he won while giving huge gifts to motivating Obama's base and leaners and gutting an already meaningless policy presentation.

Obama could have enabled him or hurt him more and certainly been more in tune for the natural result of what tactics they would be forced to employ- NOT rational debate argumentation.

What Obama did not do is trick or destroy the rigged game or overwhelm the desperate BS. Whop watches the first debate and who the second? And what are the results even if neither is really critical? But if not critical what does it mean for margins and coattails?

Underdog audiences(actual TV viewership at the broadcast time), like Cubs fans attend to the first test for reassurance and energy. The media can key on that audience to swell the lucrative media takes with their false contest. The second audience is the loser group looking for reassurance their man is still there. Usually that is easier to obtain and of course with the change in numbers the media can't pump up the Cub fans so easily. I don't know if that is the case this time.

The Palin "debate" was the VP contest which was much less significant unless it reflected horribly on McCain- which it did. So it was shamelessly, revoltingly pumped up to sustain her and made her a GOP icon forever. Counter to all content and real style. Romney was much more like Palin considering his higher aspiration and supposed experience etc. But he had to be pumped up for the sake of the GOP itself.