Explaining the President's Debate Performance

I have pondered this subject for the last four or five days, read articles, listened to opinions and at this point have decided to let it rest. While it is hard for me to imagine that the average voter would change their mind on one debate performance what one needs to understand is that the average voter might just now be starting to pay attention to the race. The average voter is more influenced by what his friends and family says, in fact I would go so far as to say many people who have changed to Romney in these polls did not see the debate but are listening to the comments of people they know that say Romney beat Obama in the debate.

There is no disputing that fact. Obama looked disinterested, uncaring, checked out, one could go on and on. If Bill Clinton's War Room team taught us anything it is that unchecked lies become truths. Therefore all the never heard before modification of Romney's plans are now truths until proven otherwise. An advertisement disputing Romney's claims will never be effective in the same way because we are trained to take all of these ads with a grain of salt.

Did Obama throw away the election. I hope not. I will say that another performance such as what happened last Tuesday and this race might go down as one of the greatest chokes in the history of American politics. If Obama does not want it any worse than he showed last week maybe he does not deserve to be President.