We know Obama has a hard ceiling at 48 or 49, but events like this threaten to weaken his floor. The bottom could fall out with this type of loss. The Tie will go to Romney because the economy is so bad. Romney is acceptable and competent and Obama isn't going to be able to hide that reality anymore. GAME CHANGER!
This.
Obama is in a world of trouble, as I predicted. He failed to show that Romney is the risky monster all of his ads and surrogates have been claiming for weeks. The president has a growing credibility gap as a result (unless he can manage to sell people in the next debate on this caricature they painted of Romney). America is probably just going to tune out anything else Obama and Co. say about Romney, and just listen to Romney while he continues to shine. Romney bullied and lied; he left plenty of material for the Obama campaign to use against him. His idea of economic wisdom is to give everything that the special interests want to the special interests and $crew the rest of us. He may have won a debate, but so can liars and ideologues so long as they take over the debate.
As usual he contradicted himself even to the extent of using the oxymoron 'clean coal'. I have always thought of coal as a dirty form of energy, something to be used at most sparingly. His style of government would be just like his style of business -- My Way or the Highway.
This is not a boxing match.
