Set 1 - The Economy, this turned out to be a long drawn out affair so it garnered a whole set in my scoring system, where neither candidate was budging on their policies. Both were well rehearsed although it showed that Obama has not had to debate for a long time, or a ploy by his campaign for him to remain passive on many occasions he could of reputed Romney but didn't. On the other hand, Romney was active and engaging on just these things kept himself ahead of Obama in my view. However he failed on his points, he wasn't as direct as Obama he waffled around some key points What are these deductions and loopholes he's closing to find the money from reducing taxes by 20%? According to independent sources it just isn't possible. He wasn't specific enough and this let Obama back in. To his credit, Obama was clear, even if it was only 4.6 million jobs he created over 30 months instead of the 5 million he said, he had accepted his loss in this section he never had high ground but he has shown his voters that the economy is moving in the right direction, in between all the umm's and ahhh's. 7-6 Obama, Romney should of won this section easily but he failed to convince me over his policies at least Obama was slightly specific.
Deficit Cuts
For purely plugging his website over his deficit plan, Obama got an early lead in this section, 15-0. Again Romney seemed the better candidate being much less passive and actually seemed interested to be at this debate, 15-30, but came across as a businessman in politics rather than a politician with a great business background. Talking to people about efficiency is great but government is in place to help people not to gain the most profits and this seemed careless, 30-30. Voters want to be assured they're going to be looked after not having everything non-essential stripped away leaving just the bones behind. At one point he seemed like another George W. Bush implying why should we give tax breaks to clean energy, hate to break this to Mitt Romney but Oil and Coal are going to run out and prices of them will increase as they become more disparaging, 40-30. America should be able to lead the way in clean energy through investment and competition the ideals Romney hammered home in some areas, but these are the policies of the Democrats. Obama wins this but makes hard work of it 1-0.
Entitlements
Obama served a weak second serve to open up the game, he could not be more vague or whiff around his points. Medicare and Obamacare are great ideas, just because I'm British and having had government provided health service all my life and for all it's faults I wouldn't change it. Why? Because it is free for all, nobody should be worried about there healthcare, services and how well it is provided. It should be the same in every state and equal opportunites for everyone (rant over). For these reasons I didn't score the next two games because I felt I was too biased in my pre-set beliefs. However, Romney was very set on taking Obama to town on a $716 Billion to medicare, however he failed to mention that money was all being reinvested into Healthcare giving over 30 Million Americans, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-19832326, is the best website I could find for independent fact checking please try it!!
At this point, I was ready to sleep in the final section and closing statements. This was a stat packed, information overload of a debate and really failed to separate the two candidates even though my scoring system implied Obama won, Romney only needed to be more savvy in the first Economy section to have won this debate hands down. He was the much better candidate under the spotlight and only needed to give the critical viewer some specific policies, I go back to the loopholes and deductions to sway voters to the Republican party. Obama needs to pick up his game, he only survived the after polls because he was clearer in some point delivery, but he was rusty and stalled the mic too much if he wants to maintain his lead he must improve his game otherwise Romney is going to roll over him like he did to Jim Lehner.
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