15 thoughts on “Presidential Debate Live Stream 10-16-12”

  1. Oh who cares? I’ll be glad when this nonsense is all over. Neither of these candidates is going to make a dent in the deficit or the debt….
    As an aquaintance of mine observed recently; “how come every election is portrayed as THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN OUR LIFETIME!?”

    Gag a maggot.

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  3. Makeiitman, you are rather too cynical on this. We have decent hope that a Romney/Ryan administration could turn the nation around both on domestic and foreign policy, much the same way that Reagan did after Carter.

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  4. Bear in mind tonight that Candy Crowley, the CNN liberal “moderator”, will choose which of the “town meeting” participant questions get to be asked. Undoubtedly, she will choose those most difficult for Romney and after the responses cross examine mainly Romney. This is what happens when another liberal “moderator” conducts a debate.

    However, I am confident that Romney will overcome ths and again reveal Obama’s dismal record and lack of competence.

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  5. I hate to say it, but MIM has a point. What I hope from Romney is a skidding halt to the headlong dash to disaster.
    It will be a rough road. But nothing can be done until we deal with entitlements. That will affect us; but I’m willing to take a hit if it’s a cross the board solution.
    There ain’t no 16 trillion dollars.

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  6. MiM. What kind of world would we be living in if Carter had gotten a second term and Reagan had never been president. What if Clinton had been followed by 8 years of Gore, both with a majority Democrat congress than gone straight to Obama. Would there even be a USA? There has been a little balance. I’m fighting to the bitter end.

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  7. All I’ve heard is evading questions. I think it would be best if the moderator (or some automatic system) could turn off the microphone when the time is up.

    And Romney has not done as good a job at actually answering the questions this time. Case in point: Did he ever really say how he would equalize pay for women?

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  9. From the sections I heard on my car radio, I’d say Obama did much, much better than he did last time (although I found his tone annoying, but that’s probably because I’m not a fan and he just annoys me anyway 😉 ).

    Romney also was good, he seemed to give a strong showing — although I thought he should have been more specific on some points (but I didn’t hear the whole thing, he may have backtracked and given more specifics later).

    Sounded like it got pretty testy at times.

    From what I’m seeing online, it seems to have been pretty much a draw.

    It remains to be seen if it was enough to revive the Obama campaign. If momentum continues in Romney’s favor, however, even just slightly, he should win the election. But it’s still very close and very volatile, I’d hesitate to make a call just yet. Still, I remain stumped at why this election should even be close considering the mess we’re in. But go figure.

    So I’d say that this is an important election. But even if Romney wins and starts making a U-turn, it may, in the end, be too little too late.

    But I think it’s a mistake for us to throw our hands in the air in cynicism (as tempting as that may be).

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  10. It’s very interesting that the Las Vegas post-debate focus group, which had mostly voted for Obama in 2008, went overwhelmingly for Romney. These focus groups continue to swing to Romney.

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  11. Amen, John Piper:

    http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/i-am-going-to-vote

    “… One (of the candidates) will very probably do more good amid the bad, even if only a little.

    “We can be part of that guess, or sit it out. God promises wisdom to those who seek it. So the likelihood that prayed-up, Bible-shaped Christians will tip the scales toward the incrementally worse regime is small. Therefore, the likelihood that we will waste our time voting seems small.”

    Now go vote, everyone.

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  12. Donna, it was hard for Romney to backtrack, because Candy Crowley kept stopping him and saying he’d have time later, then moving on to another of her chosen questions. She was a terrible moderator, even to the point of “correcting” Romney when he said Obama had not called Benghazi a terrorist attack on 9/12 in the Rose Garden. The transcript shows he didn’t [made vague reference to terrorist attacks, but never called Benghazi one], she had to walk it back afterwards. Obama must think everyone has forgotten that he blamed the video 6 times at the UN a few days later.

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  13. I heard about the Benghazi moment later, the one clip I saw had Obama urging Crowley to speak louder when she affirmed his position. Moderators have a tough role in these events, they often get badgered by both sides. But she probably shouldn’t have interjected during that back-and-forth.

    Either way, it seems that this debate is unlikely to be a game changer. And there’s still another debate to get through.

    Election night should be very intense — and maybe long.

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  14. While Obama was stronger on offense against Romney than during the first debate, he royally lost it in terms of what he would effectively do differently during a second term. Essentially, he said he would subsidize the hiring of some 100,000 teachers and continue the failed policy of subsidizing green energy and jobs. Just yesterday in Massachusetts, the 123 Energy Corporation that received a $249 million subsidy from the Obama administration went bankrupt. In fact one can say that Obama himself is bankrupt when it comes to effective domestic and foreign policy during a second term.

    Romney reiterated his strong and clear policy of serious changes on tax structure, spending, energy, and trade that will have a large effect on economic growth including jobs.

    As to the supposed “independent” voters who asked the questions, this debate took place on northern Long Island, hardly a swing area; most of the questions came from Democratic leaning voters who at best were disappointed in Obama’s first-term performance.

    If the Presidential Debate Commission seriously wanted a town hall forum with real independent and undecided voters, the debate would have taken place in a true swing-state, say, Ohio, Colorado, or Florida.

    Should the American people vote Obama in for a second-term, which they might well do, they shall on the whole get the “government” they deserve.

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