My apolitical coworker's comments about the debate lifted my spirits today

Nobody wants that in a President.

...I suspect that Romney will see a modest, possibly short-lived bounce from the debate. How do you think, though, he "got played like a fiddle?"

I think he decided to give Romney plenty of rope to hang himself. He stayed low key (admittedly a little too low key for my taste), and Romney took the bait and spewed lie after lie. Now the fact checking has kicked in and the overall message is that Romney's a liar. The good guys got tons of footage to use against them in ads, and plenty of ammo to nail him to the wall in the final debate.

The energy the president has shown on the campaign trail before and after the debate tells me that his subdued tone was no accident. He wasn't unprepared, that debate was a sacrifice fly.

the Sesame Street issue & Mitt's "alpha-male" Mel Gibson performance turned off a lot of people

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A person doesn't normally swing that fast from one level to another. Romney probably does though.

but I already had negative feelings toward him. I had wondered if independents/undecideds viewed it the way I did though. Good to hear

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brenda-peterson/mitt-romney_b_1940508.html

Treating the moderator like shit? That's just an asshole.

titled "What A Guy"?

He is diminished by being below the debaters. Mitt is bad enough about stepping on people below his status, but this made it even easier.

I wonder if there will be any changes in further debate positions for the moderators so someone like mitt romney won't use his high horse to trample them?

Been many changes since 1996, requirements, time limits and polling places.

But I will be sure to get 2 copies of the voter registration form onto her desk first thing tomorrow morning, just in case.

Of course I'm not in your area, but I saw a video here saying that registration in most states ends on October 7th. And we know there are prohlems...

Good story and thanks for keeping on it.

I'll admit that I've already check my registration twice, even though I voted in this year's primaries and local elections.

They are registered.

They may think it's a guarantee that they're on the rolls.

were probably turned off by his overly aggressive performance.

Romney has a big empathy problem and his attitude last night didn't help that.

and after only a few minutes of the debate, I was wondering why anyone would ever vote for Mr Plastic Face

Spilling out everything that he thinks you want to here and he knows it's bunk.

I'm pretty damn sure they have been dropped from the rolls

he let Leher know he would chop Big Bird's head off also. I read a body language expert said if you turn the sound off on the debate and watch Romney's actions, he is behaving manically and too aggressively. I think many people felt that way. Obama couldn't respond because he kept repeating blatant lies. To his credit Obama did say that just 5 wks before the election he is changing his $5T tax cut prior statements. But it got lost in all the manic behavior of Romney.

This is also in line, I feel with his wife's concern for his mental health if he becomes president. I have a feeling he does some of this sort of behavior in private.

We've had a society that rewards people for demonstrating "fire in the belly" and seen what trouble they cause, and starting to look askance at that because it can be displayed for its own sake with no substance under it.