Romney: I’ll Cover Pre-Existing Conditions, Obama: No, You Won’t

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17. The Target Audience wasn't to the Left or the Right

The target audience was to the moderate middle independents. Why do you think Rombot had to trot out Romney-care and throw the tea-party under the bus? Because he had to work on making the moderate indie voter believe his swill. That's why you saw an aggressive approach, Indie voters need to be persuaded to vote one way or the other.

Obama's approach was to let Romney be the aggressor, let him bluster his way through his over-rehearsed talking -points [read well rehearsed lies which will be fact checked before the stage clears]. Meanwhile, Obama slowly shook his head, or visibly winced when Romney would puff out his chest in imagined victory.

Obama maintained a low-key, well paced, cadence with thoughtful pauses. Basically, he was presidential. That's his job, period. I was more disappointed in the after-debate coverage on MSNBC, except for Al Sharpton. Al, nailed it with his comment about Romney's points being from 19th century instead of the 21st century. Also, how there's tape of Romney saying something completely different than what he said during the debate.

The rest of the pundits on screen were wanting Obama to "go for the jugular". That wasn't what Obama needed to do tonight, he needed to allow Romney to feel victorious and than use Romney's own words to show how truly different these two men are.