The Official 3rd Presidential Debate Thread

[Phony Moderate]

Romney is now actually criticising capitalism. Haha.

[dirks]

eh, more petty childish attacks by Obama

[Spanish Moss]

"OK Mitt, one more try: we have fewer catapults and barrels of boiling oil than we had in the crusades." - Bill Maher

[Fargobison]

Obama is winning I guess but I don't think it will really matters that much. Romney has done good enough.

[Rooney]

The president is handing out burns like a sparkler on July 4th. In this debate he has been the real dealer of zings. Romney can barely respond.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Intrade:
Barack Obama to win the third Presidential debate (according to CNN poll): 95.8%
Mitt Romney to win the third Presidential debate (according to CNN poll): 4.2%

[dirks]

Obama - "Americans...Romney will break into your house and BANKRUPT YOU! BOOGAHBOOGAH! DON'T GO TO BED AT NIGHT BEFORE CHECKING UNDER YOUR BED FOR ROMNEY!"

[Eraserhead]

It's a draw, which is bad for Obama.

It's not a draw. The instapolls are likely to come back with pretty large wins for Obama.

I'll take a lead in the polls over a lead in the instapolls.

Well, neither candidate has that right now.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Romney has had no clue on foreign policy throughout this debate, and that is undeniable. Trying to pretend this is a draw or something is viewing policy as irrelevant and seeing politics as a gross and disingenuous show. I know foreign policy is boring, but you're supposed to say "foreign policy is a boring topic and that's a shame." Not that foreign policy is boring and "gee it's sure a good thing no one will notice our candidate might be a disaster on it!"

[Joe Biden 2020]

It's a draw, which is bad for Obama.

It's not a draw. The instapolls are likely to come back with pretty large wins for Obama.

I'll take a lead in the polls over a lead in the instapolls.

Well, neither candidate has that right now.

And, unfortunately, this debate probably won't change that too much.

[King]

Someone needs to tell Democrats and Republicans that these anecdotes about Billy Bob in Des Moines aren't interesting.

[Joe Biden 2020]

For the fourth debate in a row Obama/Biden wins the time war.

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Did Obama and Biden lose all the coin tosses?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I mean, this is not a draw by any means. Of course Obama knows more about the topic than Mittens, even Mittens knows that which is why he is trying to change the topic from foreign affairs to the economy.

Obama wins handily. The only problem for him is, foreign affairs is not a hot topic like it was in 2004. I still see Obama as the favorite to win this election, but either outcome would not be a surprise for me.

[LiberalJunkie]

Ouch mittens attacking teachers...that's gonna help.

[King]

Obama won the CNN squigglies on the closing statements not even close.

[Joe Biden 2020]

You guys ready to see what the CNN analysts think?

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

All Romney had to say once in the last 3 debates was, verbatim: "Mr. President, you've said the same thing 4 years ago, and your policies have failed and have made us worse by....." BOOM. Done. Owned. And truthful.

All Romney had to say tonight was "Mr. President, you've lead from behind, and said you have done and you championed that strategy. We now have Muslim Brotherhood after your dithering in Egypt, we now have thousands dead in Syria after your dithering, we have had attacks in Libya which you also dithered in, we have weakened allies like Israel as you dithered....Mr. President, you haven't lead, you dithered and delayed and have lead from behind, and I won't. That is all, good night."

[Vosem]

I really didn't notice an Obama victory in this debate, not even a narrow one like in the 2nd...I think it was a tie at best, and honestly a narrow Romney victory. But, again, I've been a rather poor judge of what others will think of these debates.

[RI]

Obama won the CNN squigglies on the closing statements not even close.

Yeah, they didn't care much for his negativity in the closing arguments.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I really didn't notice an Obama victory in this debate, not even a narrow one like in the 2nd...I think it was a tie at best, and honestly a narrow Romney victory. But, again, I've been a rather poor judge of what others will think of these debates.

It was impossible to miss how out of his element Romney was tonight and how he seemed to have very little knowledge of and specific policy for, foreign policy, unless you are a hack or exist in a vegetative state.

[yourelection]

My first reaction is that this was a win on points by Obama. Romney did not shine... but no face plants.

It was the squiggles that dominated the debate for me, though. Amazing how much power a small group of people have.

[Ljube]

It was a tie.

[Niemeyerite]

Democrats win their 3rd debate. Not bad.

[John Dibble]

Obama win. Horses and bayonets, b**tches.