debate in several years. you re already conceding the challenger might win this debate? i think there s a good chance governor romney will win this debate. look, he won virtually every debate during the republican primaries. he actually dispatched no newt gingrich, demolishe demolished e florida debate. the president is very good at delivering a message to the american people, but generally more like you saw at the democraticn, in kind of a longer format. it s going to be a challenge to get down to those little i find it interesting that already you re trying to dispel any motion that the president might win this thing, that you re concerned for him to win. it will difficult for him to win the first one mitt romney has debated, and the president hasn t debated in the past four years in terms of a campaign debate. the president will hold his own, but he s not known for
management of the world events, taking time from campaigning, having to cancel campaign events from the events in the middle east. does this mean the campaign is trying to lower the expectations of the president s performance? this is a president that hasn t participated in a campaign in four years. campaign debate in four years. they ve had substantially less time to prepare than mitt romney. mitt romney devoted three full days in vermont to debate preparations. the president is lucky to be able to devote three consecutive hours to debate preparation. it is something that you have to do to lower the expectations, because expectations are running quite high on both sides about the debate itself, what we can expect to see. well, i think everybody s expectations are running high. generally challengers win the first debate, especially against incumbents, because incumbents have not had the opportunity to
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many are saying this first debate is a make or break moment for mitt romney. do you agree? well, look, i listened to the democratic representative that was on earlier, and i found it fascinating about the way they re trying to play down the president s chances in this. i guess they re really worried he ll have to talk without a teleprompter, and that certainly puts him at a disadvantage. i think mitt romney is going to go into this debate recognizing that it s an opportunity for america to see him standing side by side with the president, and america s going to have to judge which one of these two individuals they want to come and solve the problems that the president is leaving us. i think it s going to be an opportunity for the governor to show america that he cares about the problems of individuals and communities in the country, that he can solve the problem as he did when he solved the problems of the olympics and came into massachusetts and turned deficits into surpluses, and
both men are said to be very good debaters, even though the obama campaign is saying that the president hasn t had a debate in some time, mitt romney has had 20 or more over this past election season. do you think there s a chance that mitt romney could be overprepared, overconfident in. well, just like you know when you work here at fox, there s some days you feel like you re on fire. you just come in and everything works well. other days things just go wrong. i mean, you can prepare and prepare, but, you know, it s nerve-racking when you ll enter a stage, the stakes are high. there are more lights than you ve ever really seen in your life. you can get on that stage, you can freeze a little bit. you don t want to do what al gore did when he debated george w. bush in 2000, seemed robotic or awkward, don t seem like you re one of us. president obama has developed a sort of zenlike unflappable demeanor. it s hard to get him off that game, hard to jar him. so mitt romney needs to try