I'm starting to get increasingly nervous. Obama needs to smoke Romney tomorrow or this thing could be fucked.
All this "OBAMA IS GOING AGGRO" stuff is dumb in the next two debates. The town halls aren't made for going after each other, is he going to blunder into a Kerry's out of nowhere rambling about lumber futures by trying to go after Romney personally? Then you get foreign policy when we know the administration doesn't want to talk about Libya and Romney wants any chance to chip away at any Osama grandstanding.
Obama screwed up the first debate, you just move on. He's going to win unless he overcompensates and comes off as the Marxist Kenyan usurper he is.
Biden was mostly irrelevant other than firing up the party nutjobs, the real thing about the VP debates was that Ryan kept to the campaign message, loved that Medicare and wasn't out there talking about the anarchist hellscape he's envisioned where spending only goes up by $1 trillion less than Obama and we have the Patriot Act forever, no medical marijuana and TARP as many times as any big business wants. People despised Paul Ryan so getting a near-draw was good enough. (And the GOP got on a circle jerk over Biden being the most human debater in ages...which he was also during 2008 primaries but nobody cared.)
The Obama team did the same thing as the Bush team in 2004. They put their strongest debate first and bombed on it. They've stopped the bleeding by not getting rolled twice with the VP debate, but they have to compete in two weaker debates. Which is fine if you can hold the map against the challenger, but doesn't let you just end things with the town-hall + strongest. (IIRC, Clinton had this setup in 1992 and it let him keep the Perot abandonders.)
Not that Obama can't dominate and close things out, just from a tactical perspective.
If Missouri is the "show me state" and they elect Todd Akin, what exactly are they showing the rest of us? That they shouldn't get to vote anymore?
They did elect a dead guy. Although that's a positive in my opinion.
Why is the Heritage foundation still credible? Didn't they also say that the Bush tax cuts would have eliminated the deficit by 2010?
Why is anyone who makes ten year budget/economic predictions credible?
Joe Biden in 2016
Wasn't there an article in the wake of his debate performance where some dope was arguing he was now the frontrunner?
I hope she runs of course. It would certainly save us from having to settle for Andrew Cuomo
What, you don't like Deval Patrick?!? Or Kristen Gillibrand? Joe Manchin?
I do wonder what Feingold is up to...
Feingold v. Rand Paul v. Gary.
Make it happen.