comawhite94 said:
If you look at Obama's speech time during that debate it was mostly filled with "uhh" and "ummmms" so if you're implying that the 5 minutes extra that he got were to elaborate his positions more, I doubt it. If I had to access if each candidate was given the time necessary to flesh out their idea's, I'd say it was equal, but only because Obama was so off his game and was stumbling through the whole thing. Romney made his points more succinctly.
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No, I'm just saying that if you actually got substantially more speaking time than your opponent, then you can't really complain just because you didn't use it well. And, for instance, in the first segment Obama kept talking about Romney's non-existent "$5 trillion tax cut for the rich". Romney only interrupted Lehrer to insist that get to respond to this false claim as it was his right to get the last word since Obama had gone first on that topic.
Whereas Biden and Ryan got basically the same time (Biden only got a tiny bit more), so there was no reason for Biden to keep interrupting just to say, "C'mon, man! Malarkey!" The Obama team has convinced themselves that Obama lost because he was "too polite", so Biden's entire strategy was to be as rude as possible and just try to big dog the young feller.
