1st Presidential Debate Live Commentary Thread

[John Dibble]

Everyone loves grandmothers.

[Eraserhead]

I'm not sure if Tommy Thompson really wanted that shout-out, Mitt. lol.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Obama lie  #3 and Romney lie #1: Social Security is not sound.

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Romney: "If you're under 60, I'm going to screw you"

[Likely Voter]

Note to Mitt. Outside the Fox/Rush bubble, names like Solyndra/Fisker/Green etc are not seen as evil.

Green energy is fine if done by private companies.  But throwing government money into fire doesn't work.

Again, that is a right wing position. Mitt thinks by just saying Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla, etc he wins points. Most dont even know what he is talking about

[Joe Biden 2020]

Turning the Medicare table on Obama.  Careful with those matches, Mitt...

[LiberalJunkie]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

[Dereich]

I'm glad their actually addressing each other. In a lot of past debates the debaters mostly just ignored the other and said their talking points. Both Obama and Romney really seem to be actually acting like they are speaking to someone whose actually in the building with them.

[Niemeyerite]

Mitt, if you're not winning on economy, you're not winning.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

Whatever he is, it seems to be working with undecideds.

[Mister Twister]

Has Romney unleashed any of his zingers yet?

[tmthforu94]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

Only to folks biased against Romney like you.

I'm sitting here in my living room watching this debate with two undecided voters - neither seem to think Romney is "angry".

[Tender Branson]

Here comes the Ryan-plan attack from Obama !!!

[Joe Biden 2020]

Word of advice to Mitt:  If you play with fire, sooner or later you will get burned.

[You kip if you want to...]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

I remember when he got passionate and ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in Iowa, South Carolina, Minnesota, Missouri... etc, etc...

[pepper11]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

Whatever he is, it seems to be working with undecideds.

cnn squiggles continue to favor mitt..though what a HUGE gender gap.

[Gass3268]

LOLing at the responses on here that Mitt's angry. Not at all. He's just passionate.

Doesn't matter if its passionate or not, it comes of as being angry.

Pretty much this and he seems really edgy. Also if you are watching the split screen, his smirks while Obama is talking doesn't come off well.  

[Peeperkorn]

Romney is winning in a landslide.

[Tender Branson]

Romney is winning in a landslide.

Hahaha, no.

[John Dibble]

Obama embracing the Obamacare term is brilliant I think - embracing the opposition's terminology that's supposed to be seen as negative can defuse the term's effectiveness.

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Romney is continuing to wage a war with FactCheck on the $716 billion.

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/08/medicares-piggy-bank/

[traininthedistance]

"I've become fond of that term, Obamacare".

ZINGER

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Romney is doing awful.

[Biden 2024]

Romney is winning in a landslide.

Nah. I would give Mitt a B and Obama a B-.

[Likely Voter]

Mitt, sure you want the private plan...just like you have a private plane.

With the absence of promised zingers I'm adding my own