Romney's Debate: A Win On The Only Things That Matter
Rick Wilson ·
October 17, 2012 at 5:11pm
Via @numbersmuncher, who is an excellent Twitter follow.
His piece here summarizes the real story of this debate, beyond Candy, Libya, and binders:
- On the economy, Romney beat Obama by 18% in the CNN poll and 21% in the CBS poll.
- The CNN poll had Romney up on handling taxes (7%) and the budget/debt (23%)
- CNN poll on if candidates had a clear plan — Romney was -1 (49-50) and Obama was -23 (38-61)
- Romney even led on health care (49-46), being a better leader (49-46), and giving direct answers (45-43)
- Obama led on being likeable (47-41) and who cared more about the questioners (44-40)
- PPP CO poll on whether view of candidates were more positive after debate: 40-36 (+4) Obama, 44-35 (+9) for Romney.
- PPP CO poll on who better understands people like you: 50/50 tie.
Read the whole thing.
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Jan '11
Re: Romney's Debate: A Win On The Only Things That Matter
I deny that a candidate should understand me. Why? A president should be like a surgeon. I don't want him to feel a moment's hesitation to start cutting when his professional judgment says he needs to. He does me more good when he doesn't care about me.
Obama pulls out his best Antonio Banderas "puss-in-boots" eyes when he tells us he cares, and then flat-out lies to us about Benghazi.
Check out his horrified indignation last night about Libya. When challenged, he didn't deny anything. Instead, he poured on the indignation (i.e., pounded the table). And after all, he has to be at the airport when they bring the bodies home - that proves something, right?
Mr. President, you may be "horrified" at the accusation, but that's exactly what you did. We have Susan Rice on videotape, and you at the UN, blaming the attack on a video. If you knew it was wrong, or even if you didn't know for sure ... why did you assure everyone else on something you had no evidence for believing?
It seems, Mr. President, that I understand you a lot better than you understand me.
Jun '12
Re: Romney's Debate: A Win On The Only Things That Matter
Obama cannot understand anyone that is not Obama.