Exchange with the obama campaign manager. he said everybody knows about the 47%. i think the biggest problem for the obama campaign last night was they had a presumption that everybody knows the facts so they don t have to relitigate the facts in a debate. the problem is you have to come into every debate as if nobody knows anything because what mitt romney was able to do was to present a completely different person and a much more aggressive person. and as ed said, ask for the job. so i think the next time what the president needs to do is to litigate that debate as if nobody knows the facts about 47%, bain capital, all the indictable things about mitt romney. he did not do that last night. those who watch the political observationists say and know republicans are doing the happy dance today. this was the type of performance that romney brought last night. bill crystal in the weekly standard said, romney comes out of the debate with momentum. can his campaign turn a good
He was enduring the debate than having a debate, fighting it out. we know senator john keshry was the president s sparring partner to prep him for this. what went wrong? i mean, why didn t the president display the passion needed, because it is really the undecides out there, both sides, whether you are for governor romney or president obama, why not display the passion necessary to keep the job. thomas, thank you for having me on this morning. people who watched the debate saw two different candidates. you saw a strong performance from governor romney and i totally agree with john. i think the advantages he had coming in having done the debates during the primary season, having, being a good deba debater, the obama campaign is trying to lower expectations, that was not the case. but what mitt romney did during the primaries as john s own candidate, rick santorum pointed
yes, at one point he took the first and last words of two segments in a row just by talking over jim lehrer and not letting him interject. but romney did well performancewise, but we can unpack the substance of his remarks and find them awfully wanting. we have two more to go in the vice presidential debate for sure. msnbc s contributors ron reagan and meghan mccain, thank you for waking up with me. fact checkers are having a good day today. they are busy. they need a lot of coffee to keep up. he took some short-term gain for long-term pain. last night if mitt romney was talking the obama campaign in full damage control mode after last night s debate. a lot of facts were being thrown around. more fact checks and half-truths. we want to get your thought on the debate, was mitt romney s debate performance the october surprise? weigh in on twitte twitter @thomasaroberts.
Disastrous policy and protected the middle class? putting more people into health care, creating jobs for many, many months after the disastrous bush agenda? yes, he has. senator hutchinson, the undecided voters are the pivotal swing votes throughout the election. and in certain snap polls taken last night, uncommitted voters polled by cbs news called mitt romney the winner by a 2 to 1 margin. and 67% said their opinion of romney changed for the better after last night. mitt romney said a lot of what the president did wrong but gave few specifics on what he would do right. do you think that hurt him in the long-run on the reintroduction is what he could do for the millions of people watching? i think that governor romney pointed out where we are today, which everyone knows is not as good a position as it was when he took office. we have increased deficits. we have had unemployment over 8%. the middle class is hurting.
What about the 47% remark? what about mitt romney s taxes? all these things that have been swirling around for months now leading up to this, none of that was discussed. great question. he did talk about taxes and pretty articulately when the president said, look, what we are being presented with here by governor romney is that he wants a $5 trillion tax cut and on top of that he wants to add $2 trillion in military spending that the military is not even asking for. and when asked how he s going to pay for all those cuts and those additions, how are you going to do it, governor romney? and the answer is almost short-shifted to the conscious of the american people when he says, what i m going to do is i m going to get rid of some of the loopholes and that s going to take care of it. well, that just isn t a sufficient answer because it won t even tell us what loopholes he s going to close in order to do it. this is a man who is running to be president of the united states. with all due