Who won the Debate?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Romney won on points but it wasn't anything special and Obama improved as the debate went on.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

At the end of the day, Romney is still Romney, his policies are still the same and there was no game changer in the debate. Romney's win is that he made it through the debate without giving the opposition any fodder to use against him.

It may be a game changer.

When in the past several decades has a first debate ever been a 'game-changer'?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Today's post-debate coverage has been less unfavorable to the president than I had expected. What I've seen has focused more on how policy-oriented / boring / confusing to undecided voters the entire event was than on anything else, and some reports have really torn into a few of Romney's claims.

Yeah, the media coverage has been a lot less sensationalist about Romney's victory than I'd expected. It's...actually...almost even-handed and fact-based coverage, so far as I've seen? Color me pleasantly surprised.