Avorysuds
Gold Member
In the first big breath after every debate, a consensus comes in, and then there's the second breath when we pour over the details and pick the winner again.
In the moment, Obama lost on style points, which is ironic, since the GOP has always accused him of being all style and no substance. On debate night, Obama was all substance and boringly so.
"Romney Wins Debate" read all the headlines, but all the subheads read: "Romney Dances Away From Platform", "Romney Misrepresents Agenda", "Romney Lies".
I can't say that the President has been on the defensive other than the debate. He picked himself up, dusted himself off, and quickly bombarded swing states with ads featuring Mitt Romney lying bald-faced to the American public during the debate. Romney's camp has been on the defensive as people are trying to figure out if he has a tax cut for the rich policy or not and how he'll be able to afford it.
Romney depends on the stupidest among us in order to get elected. He needs the low information voters out there to think he cares about middle class people, and so now we get to see if they start flocking to him in the wake of the debate. He's seen a bump in the polls, but is it just a sugar high or the beginning of a trend? We won't really know until about Tuesday.
There is a lot of truth here. This is also what I talked about, Mitt might have "won" the debate but at a huge cost. The days and weeks after the debate you have to live with the feedback that comes with lying. Look at what happened to people like Cain and Newt during the primaries, they get standing ovations only to tank in the polls a week later because when going over what they said the nation rejects them. So yes, Mitt might have made you get that feeling of "FUCK YEAH, TAKE THAT OBAMA!!!" but over the week after the debate you're gonna get a feeling of "Holy fucking shit Mitt really is a progressive liberal that says anything to win." And that will leave a lot of people feeling even more disenfranchised in the Republican party.
Some of you people act as if liberals will suddenly vote for Mitt, they hate the guy, him lying makes them want to turn out and vote. The cost Mitt will pay in the long run is when his base that he doesnt have but is trying to build realizes they truly hate Mitt and his policies and a momentary smack down on Obama is meaningless.