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richardhutnik on 22 September 2012
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SamuelRSmith said:
richardhutnik said:
Player1x3 said:
Nighthawk117 said:

Can we just get on with the debates???

For Christs sakes !!!!

I don't give a rats ass about what this media outlet says or that media outlet says...

Make up your own goddamn mind !!!!!

Don't let someone else tell you what to think or what matters.

Why can't we just wait until the candidates meet in a debate and decide for ourselves. Until then, the polls are nothing but jack shit.


if it only were that simple...

There is more than enough information out there to learn sufficiently about Romney and Obama, and other third-party candidate, to make a decision.  Who here expects a reveal so dramatic it will turn things, due to the debates?  Is Romney going to be able to show he is for everyone and not just those who pay taxes?  Is Obama going to reveal anything different?  

You assume the average voter follows this shit. Let's be honest, they don't. Most voters go by name recognition only. The hope is that by the time the Presidential debates come up, a few people will suddenly engage. I know this is what happened in the UK... the vast majority of people I know, decided who they were going to vote for, based on the party leader debates (which is one of the reasons why the Lib Dems performed so well)

I wasn't trying to upplay the other stuff, just downplay the chance of the debates making a difference.  Debates work usually to take someone down, and make them feel unsecure about them.  I don't see where they will do anything for Romney to establish anything differently than what people see about him now.  In the United States, gaffes usually eliminate candidates, not settle things, unless the issue is a candidate not sure they have intellectual fiber.  I don't believe that Romney has a Palin issue of not being seen as smart.  He is seen more as having a consistency and character issue, and a need for likeability.  

The election in the United States is that Obama should lose, if a candidate on the GOP side could capture the imagination and have charisma and likeability Reagan had.  Romney lacks this, so I am hard pressed to see exactly what Romney could do to establish himself.