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In reply to the discussion: You know how Obama hung back in the debate and let Romney rant, lie and hang himself? [View all]DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)except the part that Obama didn't win. Romney appeared to win but he lied about everything. That isn't winning. The polling is all skewed and that big jump Romney had wasn't real--he had a blip. Part of why people think Obama lost is because the polling showed Romney had big gains. He didn't. SO, if that same debate had happened, but the media reported the truth about the resulting polling, "Romney got a little blip that probably won't last" then the conversation would have been that it was draw--but Romney lied his ass off. All damage to Romney and his credibility. Still no damage to the President except that he wasn't aggressive at the debate.
Of course WE are disappointed in that debate, we wanted him to be a LION and he wasn't. But we weren't the votes he was trying to get. He was trying to keep Romney from turning the independent voters against him. Romney did not succeed in doing that.
The President walked out of the debate with no damage, no lies, only a lackluster performance, almost as though he chose not to debate Romney's lies. If you buy the polling and the media spin then, yeah, you might believe he lost. But the polling was flawed badly and so the media round-the-clock shouted out the bad polling numbers as proof of a loss.
