Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
As far as the first poll goes, it wasn't Obama who threw it away, but Romney who took it from him. And Romney may have taken the election with it, too.
Obama's performance was poor, of course. But what will win the election, is many voters seeing Romney for the first time (most people don't pay much attention to politics until shortly before the election, remember) and finding that he was NOT the indifferent, mean, starve-the-children-dispossess-the-seniors Scrooge they had heard the Democrats call him for months. To their surprise, he looked like a nice guy, concerned about people's problems, worried about national security, and with sensible plans about how to solve many of the country's problems.
People have been disillusioned about Obama for a while now, ever since he started pushing Obamacare, blocking oil drilling, appeasing foreign leaders, and "spreading the wealth around". But they weren't sure if they wanted to trade him in on an unknown candidate, especially a mean Scrooge like Romney was supposed to be. In the debate, they saw for the first time, a candidate who they realized could make a good president... and it wasn't Obama.
In the NEXT debate, it almost doesn't matter how well Obama does. People have already seen him make lots of promises and nice-sounding speeches (and trash Republicans), he won't show them anything new. But if Romney keeps doing as well as he did in the first debate, people will be even more favorably inclined to vote for him, regardless of what they see Obama do.
The election is now Romney's to lose (which he still can if he screws up badly), and maybe always has been. Most normal Americans don't really want Obama around for another term. Until last Wednesday, they weren't sure there was a suitable replacement, however.
Once they saw the debate, though, they started to realize that maybe there WAS a suitable replacement. And if Romney keeps reinforcing that impression, then he'll win in a walk. No matter what Obama does.
Obama's performance was poor, of course. But what will win the election, is many voters seeing Romney for the first time (most people don't pay much attention to politics until shortly before the election, remember) and finding that he was NOT the indifferent, mean, starve-the-children-dispossess-the-seniors Scrooge they had heard the Democrats call him for months. To their surprise, he looked like a nice guy, concerned about people's problems, worried about national security, and with sensible plans about how to solve many of the country's problems.
People have been disillusioned about Obama for a while now, ever since he started pushing Obamacare, blocking oil drilling, appeasing foreign leaders, and "spreading the wealth around". But they weren't sure if they wanted to trade him in on an unknown candidate, especially a mean Scrooge like Romney was supposed to be. In the debate, they saw for the first time, a candidate who they realized could make a good president... and it wasn't Obama.
In the NEXT debate, it almost doesn't matter how well Obama does. People have already seen him make lots of promises and nice-sounding speeches (and trash Republicans), he won't show them anything new. But if Romney keeps doing as well as he did in the first debate, people will be even more favorably inclined to vote for him, regardless of what they see Obama do.
The election is now Romney's to lose (which he still can if he screws up badly), and maybe always has been. Most normal Americans don't really want Obama around for another term. Until last Wednesday, they weren't sure there was a suitable replacement, however.
Once they saw the debate, though, they started to realize that maybe there WAS a suitable replacement. And if Romney keeps reinforcing that impression, then he'll win in a walk. No matter what Obama does.
