You are correct on all points. - Edit 1
Before modification by Avendesora at 07/10/2012 03:14:16 AM
- Romney was indeed better on the whole, not in the least for always knowing what to say and never being caught hesitating, as Obama often was; and of course coming across as more likeable.
- It seems presidential debates have now turned into a spectacle where everybody gets to make up his own facts and numbers, and it doesn't really matter whether any of them have any relation to the truth. Without rigorous factchecking afterwards, they are indeed becoming rather useless. And that applies to both candidates.
- Romney's harping on that 716 billion taken out of Medicare was rather ridiculous, and his promising to restore it is even more so.
- It hardly counts as news, but it's always amusing to see how in American politics, America being best in the world in every imaginable regard is taken as an axiom, and actual data doesn't interest anyone. I have a distinct impression that running a presidential campaign in which one consistently gives correct assessments of America's relative position in the world in all those fields, would be a recipe for the most spectacular defeat since Walter Mondale, even if you did everything else right.
- It seems presidential debates have now turned into a spectacle where everybody gets to make up his own facts and numbers, and it doesn't really matter whether any of them have any relation to the truth. Without rigorous factchecking afterwards, they are indeed becoming rather useless. And that applies to both candidates.
- Romney's harping on that 716 billion taken out of Medicare was rather ridiculous, and his promising to restore it is even more so.
- It hardly counts as news, but it's always amusing to see how in American politics, America being best in the world in every imaginable regard is taken as an axiom, and actual data doesn't interest anyone. I have a distinct impression that running a presidential campaign in which one consistently gives correct assessments of America's relative position in the world in all those fields, would be a recipe for the most spectacular defeat since Walter Mondale, even if you did everything else right.
I would like to add that it would be just as informational to have each side run opposing political ads for the same time frame. They say virtually the same thing.