There is simply no way I can resist passing along a column that carries a subhed like this: “Obama won the debate, and everyone but Romney and the Republicans know that.”
The piece is Michael Tomasky, and you should read THE WHOLE THING:
Today may be the most important single day of the campaign. Obama won the debate. Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged. That makes two out of three. You might think that would mean momentum. And yet the conventional wisdom is congealing right now—it is hardening
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