My suspicion when this is all said and done

[pnwmom]

is that in the next few days polls will show that women were largely turned off by Mitt's hyperactive and aggressive posturing, and men liked it.

So nothing very new.

[DURHAM D]

1. Was the war on women even mentioned in the debate last night?

[pnwmom]

2. Not once. But the last debate will also include domestic policy.

Hopefully it will come up then.

[DURHAM D]

3. We are only 53% of the voters so

I guess we are not very important.

[garthranzz]

4. I thought much the same thing

Romney reassured his base - old, tired, insecure, poorly educated white men.

(For the record, I'm reasonably old, occasionally tired, and a white male.)

[MADem]

5. My suspicion is that Obama didn't lose any votes. rMoney might have.

Big Bird won. Jim Lehrer lost.

As the fact checks come out, rMoney's cockiness will deflate and he'll have to run from the press who will try to challenge him on his hyperactive, serial lying. The very thing he needed--more press coverage--he'll have to avoid, because those reporters won't be kissing up, they'll be questioning his bullshittery.

When Rasmussen doesn't give the guy a bounce, he has a problem.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

6. They were on CNN's squiggly lines

The women in the Colorado focus group DID NOT respond well to Romney. And in fact, because I watched the debate on that network looking at their real-time responses, I didn't think Romney scored as highly as the hysteria addicts here and cable pundits did. In fact while Mitt started off very strong and landed some punches early, there were diminishing returns the rest of the night, particularly when he launched into his corporate douchebag tone.

[Cosmocat]

8. It's going to be a small win

As someone posted from some overnight polling, he got some of the R leaners to come on board. He probably had them anyways. He did not flip any Obama set voters, and I think his course tone and his making stuff up and lying will not doing him much good with any true undecideds. They might not know much about the policy to know the lies, but he just not come off as credible - my plan WILL cover pre-existing conditions. Really, Mitt?

[seabeyond]

7. good point. and probably right. but then, we didnt and couldnt have those men anyway. nt