Serious Q: Should Obama change anything about his debate style?

[cavalcade]

Using "who do you think won the debate" as a metric, Obama lost the first debate tremendously largely be being very cautious, barely responding to Romney's attacks, and trying not to make any major mistakes.  Romney, who debated better than he has ever debated in his life (and, likely, better than he will in the town hall and foreign policy debates) got what was apparently a very short lived bounce.  Now it appears that Obama is ahead again.  Rasmussen has the race tied and, per Gallup, Sunday was a better day for him than Tuesday.

So if you are the Obama team, do you actually do anything different in the next two debates?

[Frodo]

Obviously he should be much more engaging and combative (in other words, be alive) in countering Romney's lies and half-truths, but he should at all times avoid mentioning such subjects like the 47% video we all have seen.  Leave those to his surrogates and his ads.  Stick with the issues during the debates.    

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Obama has never been a strong debater. He needs to look more engaged with the audience than he did last time, but I reject the idea that he needs to bring up Romney's gaffes because that will just open himself up to attacks, which could get ugly pretty fast.

He just needs to come off as more in control and likable, but I think those things are difficult for him. For all the hype Obama has gotten, and as wonderful a speaker he is, he really doesn't seem very likable personally like say Clinton or Bush. Both of those men you would feel comfortable hanging around with, but Obama is more of like a professorial type figure who is sort of stand offish and introverted. He's always been that way even in 2008, but much more so now.