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   Rickapolis said, 9 months ago

   Apparently so.
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   I Play One On TV said, 9 months ago

   Agreed. He had no control. He was not able to keep the candidates on subject, or to keep them to their appointed times. At the least, he could have steered them back to the original question when they constantly strayed from it….we can hope the next debate is better.
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   Radish said, 9 months ago

   They should have drug tested Mitt after the ‘debate’. What was that guy on to make him so agressive and unable to follow the simple rules of time segments?
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   dtroutma said, 9 months ago

   Mitt out shouted both Obama and Lehrer, but didn’t make any real points, other than reversing all of what he stood for until five minutes before the debate. So, if volume, of decibels and lies counts, Mitt did win.

   
   Obama did do a poor job, actually, because he tried, most of the time, to actually follow the rules of the “debate”.

   
   Lehrer also did a poor job with BOTH CANDIDATES, by not shutting them down and keeping them on track.

   
   Poor “debate” all around. But, that has become the recent history of debates in general, and the general public hasn’t a clue how these “discussions” are supposed to be conducted.

   
   Gee, does it have anything to do with the “shout them down” media we have today??
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   MortyForTyrant said, 9 months ago

   This format is no longer useful in todays politics. With the dumbing-down of the population the attention span sinks as well. To listen to a guy talk for 120 seconds is pain. I propose a steel-cage fight for the next debate…
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   onguard said, 9 months ago

   Why is it so many news and Congress people don’t know when to hang it up?
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   Megan said, 9 months ago

   Especially when Jim found out he would lose his job if Mitt wins
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   Megan said, 9 months ago

   I think the moderator needs a buzzer to honk and cut either candidate off when they go on and on and on, or go over his time limit
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   Respectful Troll said, 9 months ago

   http://factcheck.org/2012/10/dubious-denver-debate-declarations/
10. 

    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 9 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    Here’s a place that’ll teach you how to link
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    I showed you before, but it apparently didn’t take.
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 9 months ago

    It’s really easy!
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    Michael wme said, 9 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    And it needs to be to the death. And with poisoned weapons. I want the ending to be like Hamhock, Prince of Jutland when his uncle gave him poisoned wine and got him into a duel against an opponent with an unbuttoned, poisoned foil.
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    Tigger said, 9 months ago

    The Clear loser was Obama, anyone watching could clearly see Obama did not want to be there.

    Lehrer lost control of the debate out of the gate by nit imposing his own rules.

    Bennett is incapable of criticizing Obama.
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    Tigger said, 9 months ago

    @Megan

    All he had to do is the same thing NBC did during the 2008 McCain Obama debate, cut them off when they went over their time limit.

    Lehrer gave Obama 4 more minutes than Romney, and Obana still lost
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    sclark55 said, 9 months ago

    Yes, I was going to say, Clay seems to have trouble with the notion that he’s clearly behind the loser…
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