I'm apparently a terrible, awful person.

[davsand]

33. Will, I get what you are saying, and this race is a lot closer than I'd like to see right now.

Given the absolute turd muffin that I think The Mittster is, I'd really rather see polls that show Obama with a lock on a win--with a HUGE margin. We don't have that right now, and it creeps the hell outta me that there is no clear majority for what I consider to be such an obvious choice.

Turd Muffin -v- Obama. Come on--really? You are telling me that almost half the people polled don't SEE how bad it could get if they vote the wrong way? Makes me feel ill.

I do think the debates are only one aspect of the race, and in that respect, I think a lot otherwise savvy folks are getting over heated before they need to. Obama laid back in that first debate. Dunno why for sure--but he clearly did not go after the lies and double talk the way I wanted him to. (Hell--I wanted him to just bitch slap The Mittster at one point and we ALL know that ain't happening!)

What we DO have, after the debate was over and done, was a knee level wind on The Mittster's side, with all his campaign folks out there doing a two step trying to distance him from some of the more heinous comments he made. We had open comments in mainstream media about The Mittster's flip-flops and actual lies. We even had the great good gift of a few news cycles of The Mittster being talked about as the guy who wants to off Big Bird!! Something that was supposed to be a throw away line that "humanized" him actually bit The Mittster on the ass big time. That is not a bad place to be in if you are the Obama camp and you want red meat to throw out in the next few debates. That also is not a bad place to be with somebody like Biden coming up to debate a little snot like Ryan later this week.

I agree, it ain't over yet, and there's an awful lot gonna happen before this election is over. Having SAID that, however, i think obama is gonna come out of this looking just fine and sounding like a President rather than a blowhard. Cough. Mittster. Cough.


Laura