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Who won the 16 Oct Presidential Debate

Who Won?

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Official who won thread so we do not get several like last time. Make your pick but wiat for the debate to actually start please.
 
Redress said:
Official who won thread so we do not get several like last time. Make your pick but wiat for the debate to actually start please.
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Bartack Obama?
 
Oh man, I thought you'd somehow time traveled.

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Obama sucks!! Oh, sorry I'm early. :lol:
 
Obama won, but not by much. There were plenty of lies and misleading from both, but more so from Obama. Obama did a fantastic job of side-stepping the Libya question and Romney has set up the conversation going into the next debate by calling out Obama on his lie.

This wasn't a landslide for Obama like what Romney had from the first debate, but Obama clearly won this debate.
 
I felt like Obama won. The mishandling of Libya by Romney clinched it. He should've been able to win on that, but I think Obama came away looking good and Romney somewhat petty. It wasn't nearly as big a win as Romney had in the first debate.
 
Obama came out on top. Not a huge, uncontested victory, but still a win.
 
Decent debate.

Obama is full of it though. His groupies are gonna be screaming he won, but his last answer was all crapola.

He's a progressive. Plain and simple he believes in income redistribution. He believes in taxing the rich and passing that money down. Those are his fundamental beliefs. If you don't believe that you are either blind or fooling yourself.
 
Honestly, I think they both were very strong on different issues. I see it as a tie.
 
Anagram said:
I felt like Obama won. The mishandling of Libya by Romney clinched it. He should've been able to win on that, but I think Obama came away looking good and Romney somewhat petty. It wasn't nearly as big a win as Romney had in the first debate.
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Romney did fall flat on Libya. I could have crushed Obama when that came up. He needs to do better next time or Obama may get another 4 years.
 
Hugh_Akston said:
Obama won, but not by much. There were plenty of lies and misleading from both, but more so from Obama. Obama did a fantastic job of side-stepping the Libya question and Romney has set up the conversation going into the next debate by calling out Obama on his lie.

This wasn't a landslide for Obama like what Romney had from the first debate, but Obama clearly won this debate.
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Took the words from my mouth.

A lot of this was style over substance, but the president took the win by a small margin.
 
Obama won, I think the format helped Obama a lot, he does well in front of a crowd like that. Impressive turn around by him after the last disappointing debate.
 
I missed half of it because my DVR sucks. So I'm gonna flip a coin.
 
Romney was like Biden on 'roids early and Obama had a nice answer when Romney was all ~"well, well, well, what is it then?!" At that point I thought we might need to restrain the candidate.
 
Obama won, but not by as wide of a margin as Romney won the first one.
 
ecofarm said:
Romney was like Biden on 'roids early..,
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Are you kidding? Did you watch the VP debate? Biden came off as an unprofessional, condescending, inconsiderate lunatic. Romney was very professional and respectful.
 
The Man said:
Are you kidding? Did you watch the VP debate? Biden came off as an unprofessional, condescending, inconsiderate lunatic. Romney was very professional and respectful.
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Your partisan goggles are worse than beer goggles. Romney looked like a nervous Biden. But it doesn't matter now because he flopped on Libya, flopped on giving details to his tax plans, flopped when Obama called out the math being incorrect saying, "my plan does make sense! It's the president's plan that doesn't add up!"
 
At face value, I declared it a tie. Obama clearly did NOT want to talk about Libya. He also refused to answer the last question appropriately, and totally fabricated the point of the "47%" issue (thanks Candy for helping Obama by denying Romney from explaining it).

However...because Obama got cuffed around so much during the last debate, he needed to hit a home run tonight. Instead, he hit a double and got thrown out at third. Not what people expected. Obama is not going to get the bump he expects.
 
The Man said:
Are you kidding? Did you watch the VP debate? Biden came off as an unprofessional, condescending, inconsiderate lunatic. Romney was very professional and respectful.
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Well, I'm only on radio, but I thought he might eat the mod and require suppression by secret service. After he would not let Obama answer ~3 times (about a specific sentence), Obama gave a good answer - making Romney's frothing all the more apparent. After that Romney held his own for the most part, and Obama improved.
 
JEthrid said:
Your partisan goggles are worse than beer goggles. Romney looked like a nervous Biden. But it doesn't matter now because he flopped on Libya, flopped on giving details to his tax plans, flopped when Obama called out the math being incorrect saying, "my plan does make sense! It's the president's plan that doesn't add up!"
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You didn't watch the VP debate either.
 
Hugh_Akston said:
Romney did fall flat on Libya. I could have crushed Obama when that came up. He needs to do better next time or Obama may get another 4 years.
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Romney looked to me like he was being overly cautious on that one. Perhaps he didn’t want to be accused of over politicizing the tragedy. But instead it made him come across as timid and uncertain, at least on that particular question. It isn’t really the kind of question you can win points on without looking like an a**hole.
 
I thought it was a draw.

Mitt Romney would have done better had he not kept turning to Pres. Obama and asking him questions. He repeatedly came across foolish doing that, especially when he did so well pointing out the President's first term short comings. He should have hammered home on that instead of the silly gimmick.
 
I'm gonna be listening to the conservative radio station tomorrow. It will be fun to compare this debate to the gloating after the first one.
 
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