Not The Behavior Of A Winning Team

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Watch the video inside and tell me what Sununu hopes to accomplish. Seriously, what's the point?  Oh, I get the big ol' dog whistle, but what I don't get is why Sununu would go down this path after a supposed victory?  These are not the words of winners. Maybe, he just didn't want to be outdone by his buddy Newt.
“[Obama] really is like the substitute [National Football League] referees in the sense that he’s not a real president,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Tuesday night. “He doesn’t do anything that presidents do, he doesn’t worry about any of the things the presidents do, but he has the White House, he has enormous power, and he’ll go down in history as the president, and I suspect that he’s pretty contemptuous of the rest of us.”

Thursday Open Thread [10.4.12]

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By doing well last night, Romney reversed the expectations game for the next debate. He will be expected to be great again, and Obama will be expected to collapse to the ground in fear. But this next debate is the town-hall format. That was Obama's best debate last time, and it is something Romney does not do well, i.e. relating to the common folk. One final point to last night's debate: if Democrats and the President were complacent, they are not any more. Actually, that was the biggest danger to the election: Democratic complacency because we expect to win. Well, that is no longer a problem.

The Polling Report [10.4.12]

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Some interesting things in those snap polls (and if you want to talk about skewed polls, Republicans, did you know that the CNN poll did not poll anyone under the age of 50 or of color?). First, the CBS poll found that 69% thought President Obama cares about their needs and problems, which is up from 53% before the debate. Second, the favorable / unfavorable numbers of both candidates remained unchanged after the debate. Indeed, while Romney won, he was an absolute and complete asshole during it. How many times did he interrupt Jim Lehrer and the President? And his "I get to have the last word" reaked of privileged entitlement. Peter Hamby of CNN tweeted: "So if [Romney] didn't fix his favorables with this debate, it means his victory was worth ZERO." And now onto the state of the race where it really matters:

Let’s Discuss The Debate

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Obama seemed distracted last night, and everyone can feel free to list their reasons why.  He missed several openings to hit Romney, but that's hardly new for Obama.  He's not a debater - go back and watch his debates against Hillary Clinton.  The best you can say about Obama is that he did no harm.  So was I thrilled with Obama's style last night?  No.  He lost on style, but there's two parts to a debate and the second one is substance.  (More on that in a minute)  What Obama did do was deny Mitt Romney a debate ad clip.  There was no gotcha moment for Mitt to seize upon. But if Mitt walks away with no ad clips Obama walks away with a ton. Which brings us to substance.