I posted this comment to another HuffPo article where a person implied that Obama's debate performance was superior and that anyone second-guessing it are clueless.
mccain did exactly what bush did to Kerry 4 years ago. We know how that ended. There are endless studies that prove what mccain did is highly effective against weak-kneed debaters.
By "weak-kneed" I mean people who allow their opponent to talk over top of them while speaking, refuse to challenge personal slurs and inappropriate references, and refuse to challenge lies.
Kerry's gritty debates in 2004 won him the nomination - and his groveling, overly-polite debates lost him the presidency. You can believe whatever you want to believe, but I'll rely on what I've seen happen in the last 28 years of presidential debates. The debates are judged by the results on prospective voters - not by what you or I think should matter.
The only reason Obama is alive after his Kerry punching-bag interpretive dance recital is because mccain's persona strongly emoted a surly, "cranky old man." Had he been some affable 50-something, like bush was a few years back, Obama would have been written off as road-kill. Studies in history of debates (there are a few well-referenced posts on HuffPo) make that very clear.
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