this morning on world news now rating the debate. the presidential candidates get down to policy nitty-gritty in their first face-off. the early reviews say mitt romney turned in a strong performance in denver last night. it is thursday, october 4th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good thursday morning, everybody. i m paula faris. and i m rob nelson, welcome, everybody. a lot of people are saying it looks like a brand new race this morning. we ll have complete debate analysis coming up in just a second. by all accounts a very good night, perhaps a momentum game-changer for mitt romney. bit of a head scratcher for the president. a lot of people said he just looked listless. he kind of phoned it in last night. not a good night, so, expect reassessment. for sure. also this half hour, laughing it up with america s
the romney campaign had over a dozen people in there, they walked in before the debate had even ended, ready to start talking victory. the president s team didn t arrive for 10 to 15 minutes and only just a handful of them in there. that kind of says it all. the one side wanted to come in there and start gloating. the other side scrambling to figure what to say. they re trying to say this is all about mitt romney being a little irritated. many people are saying it was the president being a little bit limp and lackluster. most people agree with the latter for sure there. so getting beyond this debate, what is next for both men now, karen? president obama will be back here in just a couple hours. an event here this morning at university of denver. before he head to wisconsin for an event in madison. that s expected to be a large crowd, ce ca, po mitt romney is heading to virginia today, outside of charlottesville. smaller event, smaller town. rob, paula, now talking about the debat
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doctor no was released. what are you doing, girl? followed by 21 other movies featuring 007. during the time six men have played bond himself. forgot how hot he was. the franchise has done pretty well. you might say it had nearly $5 billion in ticket sales. the 23rd bond film sky fall hits theaters later this month. who is your favorite whoa, distracted. who is your favorite bond of all? i m still a sean connery fan. daniel craig. i love daniel craig. he surprised me. i wasn t expecting a whole lot from him. he won you over. he did win me over. indeed. nice to know, paula. just like you. took a little time, right? yes. coming up, family members who found out about tainted peanut butter and they found out the hard way. and later, historic humor. how past political debate turned candidates into laughingstocks. you are watching world news now.
there weren t a lot of bright spots for the president. this was romney s night. everyone on both side saying that. one effective thing the president did, pointed out romney is still short on details on a few key things, health care plan, his tax care plan, as well as as frank-dodd. did he score any points as far as romney being a blank canvas? there were a few vulnerabilities when you talked about entitlements, tax plans, he has to square these numbers. he dug himself some holes, that the obama campaign can dig him into even more. it s going to be difficult for him to square those things in a future debate. i think there is possible areas of opportunity there. this was not something that even the most dedicated partisans can paint as a good night for president obama. you know it s a bad night if opinions are that uniform, huh? exactly. the next presidential debate, tuesday, october 16th. thank you, rick. thanks. thank you, guys. our coverage of the debate does not end her