Who Won The Presidential Debate?
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney duked it out in Denver, Colo.
President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney faced off in the first of three presidential debates Wednesday night. The debate was held at the University of Denver in Colorado.
President Obama, 51, vying for his second term, was leading by four percentage points in a national poll over challenger Mitt Romney, 65, before the debate. However, political pundits and speculation on Huffington Post questioned whether the debate could change the standings.
The candidates are expected to debate each other two more times - once on Oct. 16 and once on Oct. 22. The topics for those debates will be domestic policy on the 16th and foreign policy on the 22nd.
Even a small bump from Wednesday night's domestic policy forum could make the race much closer. Obama entered the debate with only a slight lead according to the polls of two key states, Virginia and Florida, said the Huffington Post. Those states are must-win states for Romney, the Republican challenger.
Did you watch the debate? If you did, what did you think? Was there a clear winner? Did one politician shine above the other. Vote in the Patch poll below.
TheGreatHoax
12:07 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Romney was the grown up in the room. Presidential, professional, business-like, informed, confident, comfortable, happy. Obama looked irritated, unprepared, angry, incompetent.
Lville Rob
12:23 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Not even close. Romney totally dominated: on substance, demeanor, clarity, passion, and vision. The President almost appeared befuddled.
Caroline Hawkins
12:58 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
I am a dem that can't vote for Obama. I didn't vote for him in 2008 either!!
KC
1:32 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
I am an Independent who can't vote for any of these eunichs.
gjc
11:11 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Then you're not a Democrat. A true party person votes party all the way down the line. You're an Independent who would like to be a Democrat but just can't quite make the grade.
Leslie
2:06 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Wait a minute....I am a registered Republican....I lean more to the Right. However I am an Independent.... I just think I should be allowed to vote in the primaries without having to declare a party... However at one point I was a true GOP all the way...things changed in the last years that have made me want to be more independent than anything.
I do think Nobama was horrible last night. This is what thinking on his own does ... a true sign of why he would rather party then do something productive FOR AMERICA.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
3:29 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
GJC - not about "making the grade" - it's about the fact that neither party has a monopoly on "right/wrong", "liberal/conservative", or even "left/right".
Go to it, KC - vote for the best choice, not the lever pull that's in the column for "one" of your choices - and, if you aren't sure, don't pull that "one" lever.
NBew Jersey Art
1:09 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
When Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher and Chris Matthews think that Romney won the debate, it was a bad night for the President. Let's hope he has many more.
gjc
11:12 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
That's called being fair, something that Rush Limbaugh et al could never do.
Crafty1
1:17 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
By far, Romney dominated this debate. Obama very seldom looked directly at Romney. Obama seemed pissed and kept looking down in order to hide his anger.
John Jay
1:36 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
What Romney did to Obama is what Rocky did to Clubber Lang in Rocky III: knock out!
pizmo
1:44 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
mitt ko'd BO. did anyone else realize how obama rambled with his words without a teleprompter...even bill mahr made jokes about obama rambling without a teleprompter.
Jk
1:46 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Obama gave facts. Romney has no idea what cuts he'd make yet. He has to take the knife to the budget to pay for increased defense spending and tax cuts. This will affect us we deserve the right to know details.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
2:06 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
As soon as a budget is produced, of course...
paulie
9:32 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
JK - Gave Facts? Yeah, the fact he looked like a deer in the headlights.
Big A
11:01 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Stop it already, Obammy has been a failure, he destroyed this country, and you support him.Wake up.
HARRY CARRICK
11:28 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
What budget? Obama has'nt submitted one in four years. Perhaps you call Sen. Harry.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
3:31 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
I'm supposed to discuss where I would trim the budget in the debate next Tuesday - I'll give you my answer now...we haven't produced a budget to trim. Want to know where I would cut EXPENDITURES? I have several answers on that, but I will give them on Tuesday. Those who are following what we're up to already know - those who oppose us don't get a free look.
Jk
1:50 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
The good majority of Independent studys by paid professional researchers support Obama's for the econony and reducing the national debt.
pizmo
2:07 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
jk, you are intitle to your own opinion but not your own facts...truth is that obama raised the debt more than all the other presidents combined.
paulie
9:33 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
JK - Keep drinking the kool-aid
Big A
11:03 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
What a joke, except for you and some other progs, this country is in the worst shape in 100 years, and its all his doing.
HARRY CARRICK
2:59 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Please give us a list of these "INDEPENDENT" Professional researchers.
Jk
1:51 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Obama's plan*
Kenneth Scuorzo
2:14 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Obama is toast
John Jay
1:51 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
JK: Obama got knocked out; please take your DNC talking points somewhere else.
Burd Turglar
9:37 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
How can you crown a winner when all the teams weren't playing? Why was Gary Johnson denied a place on the stage?
Who is Gary Johnson? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXab-nPucwA&feature=colike
Excluded from debates: http://newmexico.watchdog.org/16307/two-sponsors-pull-out-of-presidential-debates-in-protest-over-gary-johnsons-exclusion/
Ritz
9:43 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
JK - the vasy majority of "Independent Studies" - the most repsected of which is from the CBO - says that Obama had 4 years to do whatever he promsied YOU he would do with those details you seem to think he provided. And he didn't. Let's give someone else a chance to fix this country. Can anyone say...President Romney. :)
DAEBJ
9:45 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
GO MITT!!! Let's KO BO right out of the seat he didnt deserve to begin with!!!!
ROMNEY/RYAN ALL THE WAY!!!
Carlos B. Alonso
10:40 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
President Obama was exposed not only as mediocre without pre scripted notes, but as someone that could not defend his record.
The US has a 15% poverty rate, average salary has decreased by 8%, unemployment is too high, just as foreclusores, and our national debt.
It is time for a change. Romney shows class, and has a plan. Obama should be fired!
Big A
11:05 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Mitt won , without even listings all of Obamas failures
HARRY CARRICK
11:32 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hope and Change. Lets Hope for a Change
Crafty1
11:43 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Obama won in 2008 due to his eloquent speeches...with the use of a teleprompter. Sure is a different animal without one! Stumble, studder, and crash!
Wake up people before it's too late. Romney/Ryan all the way!
Robert Kirvay
12:01 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Romney dominated the debate. Obama should stick to delivering speeches at his church using his adopted southern preacher tone. Obama can only appeal to the misinformed, misguided and those who choose to consume psychedelic drugs.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
2:15 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
He's got the moves like Jagger - stumbles, coughs, and staggers
Mac
4:15 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Thanks for clearing that up for us Mitt. The far-right and the 1% have switched positions overnight and now embrace the middle class and small business owners. And here I thought their greedy practice of by-passing America's middle class for cheaper foreign labor and irresponsible inhumane working conditions would last forever in today's worldwide economies. Then again, I had overlooked the fact that these foreign countries offering such shameful working conditions were the only ones we haven't invaded in the last couple of decades. After all, cutting out the middle man is always more profitable, and matched with the unscrupulous war profits, it’s a double bonanza. However, it probably is the only ways we will ever settle our debt with China while providing America’s middle class one last brief hurrah.
Evan Kleiner
5:30 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
You guys are all so ignorant sounding. Romney stated all the little things Obama did wrong as a president in 4 years which happens to every president. How about he talks about his plans for the future. He also has his form of OBAMAcare, How about that foreign policy also? none! #4moreyears
HARRY CARRICK
6:17 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Little things? I suppose 16 trillion dollars in national debt, 23 million unemployed,
47 million on food stamps, and no coherent foriegn policy are little things. What in h-ll
do you consider big things?
Charlie D
8:54 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Not only did Obozo lose the debate, he said pretty much the same stuff he said 4 years ago which has proven to be a big fat whopper! We also need to get rid of Menendez, one of the Pelosi minions, because we need a budget and Menendez is just another empty chair!
k
9:53 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
They both are full of boloney and you know what else!
George Johnson
8:11 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
Romney sealed the deal for this guy. Voted the wrong guy last time now voting in a businessman to clean up this fiscal mess. Time to get our country in order again.
Nancy
3:23 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Businessman who gives his business to China
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
3:33 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
GM just built how many plants in China with your bailout dollars? (don't get me wrong, I'm not in the tank for Romney, either).
Ian Scott
5:20 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Obama is just an empty suit - an actor who can't perform without a script. He should back out of the race and move to Hollywood,
mjmjr
1:52 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
THEY BOTH SUCK,BUT OBAMA CAN READY TALK WITHOUT A SCRIPT.300MILLION PEOPLE AND WE GET THIS,WHAT A JOKE.
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