I watched the Romney piece and was sickened by the way the piece was edited. It was obvious that Romney had more substance to add to support his response to a question and I knew the rest of the response because I’m paying attention. Nope, they cut it off and moved on so the rest of America didn’t get the benefit of a thoughtful answer. So to be fair, I turned off the TV for the Obama piece.

Uh oh, Mitt Romney’s week gets even worse
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/24/full-audio-of-1998-redistribution-speech-obama-saw-welfare-recipients-as-majority-coalition/
Working poor- “other people”? Are urban blacks always not working, or rich? I doubt anyone wants to be lumped in with welfare queens by someone who believes in a society where everything is free but us.
Just an idea: we ought to have a string of these clips in a video, from this to Joe the Plumber to “didn’t build that” and leading up to gruesome stats from his record and policies, especially with regard to small businesses.

What I wonder about is how many people watched each of the interviews. IMO, Governor Romney seemed to be jogging in place for much of the interview – which may well have been a result of CBS editing. but for me it was too much techno-speak and not enough focus on the importance of economic growth – which is the connecting link between his economic policies.
However, he nailed it when asked about his “Big Idea”. His crisp answer – “Freedom” – and what followed could be an outstanding 30 second commercial. By Rasmussen the campaign is deadlocked nationally, with O having a small swing state edge. This is eminently winnable. Reagan/Carter was a nailbiter until 855 PM EST election night. May this have the same happy outcome.

The only one bringing ‘Romney still sucks here’ to this thread is, well, you.

CT, I left the country that fall for a long travel/work adventure overseas. I sent my absentee ballot in for Reagan, and I followed what I could, relying on the newspapers in Europe. But I missed all the drama. I suspect we have many younger readers who do not remember Reagan / Carter.

It would be great to see a diary telling the story of what it was like the final few weeks of Reagan / Carter.

Mitt certainly didn’t do himself any good with this. But, then again, how could he? This was Scott Pelly at his ‘journalistic’ best, or worst, depending on your P.O.V.

Fortunately for me the ball games pushed 60 Minutes so far behind that the Obama interview was omitted from the recording sparing me the inconvenience of fast-forwarding through it before deleting the entire piece.

As for 60 Minutes in and of itself, this certainly isn’t the show it was in the beginning. I still enjoy Leslie’s and Morley’s work, most of the time and, rarely, Steve Kroft is worthwhile but Scott Pelly is utterly insufferable.

This is amazing. This is what you have to resort to. “Hey, we’re getting absolutely demolished because America can’t stand what we’re selling, so let’s make up some other scenario so we can all feel good!”

The best thing about this picture comparison is that you’re drawing attention to the fact that Romney looks as he always does and will continue to look: like an animatronic deer in the headlights. Those eyes are vacant because he doesn’t believe a damn word he’s saying about anything. He’s in constant pander mode. America doesn’t like him or trust him. None of you in this echo chamber even like him or trust him! None of you can say with any certainty how this man would behave in office. And this is the standard bearer of your party. Incredible.

This brings me to my bigger point Moe (get your ban hammer ready because I know you’re incapable of engaging in any sort of realistic discussion, gotta keep the echo chamber echoing), you are losing. And you will lose in November. As a presidential effort, as a party, and as a brand. You are losers. Because your ideas are terrible and America doesn’t trust them. You all will blame it on the candidate and swear to do better next time. And everyone else will just laugh, as we always do, because changing captains on a sinking ship won’t do any good at all, will it?

Now go ahead and add a snarky comment and ban me, Moe. Continue to show these people what an echo chamber looks like.

Three words: 2010.

great comment, but please can we call the ambassador’s death what it was, criminal level malfeasance by the Obama administration which resulted in the brutal murders and torture of Ambassador Stevens and his team.

Idiots gonna idiot.

I was 27 at the time – and for me it was a real nail-biter. it was considered dead even going into the debate – the only debate – which was held exactly one week prior to the election. the key to the debate was that Reagan CLEARLY crossed over the “Presidential Plausibility” line and he nailed Carter in the end with the famous “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
Gallup had a poll showing a 6 or 8 point lead a few days before the election. From all accounts, the polling for Carter went south big-time starting the weekend before the election. From this I take that Mitt”s Presidential Plausibility will get a big boost – from the first debate – especially if he does well.
Incumbents are hard to dislodge and let’s not forget this “historic” presidency. I expect tooth and nails up to the end – and hope/pray for a big late break.

Exactly. It was dead even prior into the debate. Reagan, being the challenger, was going to receive the majority of the undecideds if he performed well. Reagan was an excellent speaker and debater. This was icing on the cake. A summary of polls at the time that Carter had a lead of approximately 3 points. (are not dems always in the lead? Lol. i.e Gore, Kerry and Obama) Gallup could have been called an outlier. We have to remember that John Anderson was polling about 9% of the vote. All Reagan needed to do was to prove himself as the safe choice. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-, numbers/2008/10/reagans_comeback.html

Reagan because of the debate won by 9 instead of a smaller victory. If Romney has a good debate the victory will be larger.

“Moderator: We have a twitter question for Gov. Romney–how will your economic plan benefit someone who is unemployed and has exhausted his unemployment benefits?

Gov. Romney: Well, Mr. Moderator, . . . .”

Moderator: We have another twitter question–this one for President Obama–Mr. President, what is your favorite color?”

It probably won’t be THIS bad, but it will be very close to it.

hi lv – yes!… yet they’re out there ~~loving~~ this President and his circle…

‘Let’s have another victory for the callous, depraved, covert, lying, frivolous, tone-deaf, failing Obama administration so we can have four more years of unemployment, shredding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights -whoooo-hooooo’!!!
Trying to talk sense to some of these folks, I feel like Alice, just stepped through the looking-glass….