Romney Proves How No One Wins a Crying Game
All of the evidence points to one thing, but most of the media is saying a different thing.
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Last night's debate had more competition than any other this election cycle. Placed firmly the middle of a crowded October night of sports, the third and final Presidential debate put up the lowest numbers of the three.
All of the evidence points to one thing, but most of the media is saying a different thing.
The final debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was bound to spawn a meme or two in in the hours after the debate.
Both Obama and Romney started out with smiles and jokes. Then they got a little meaner.
Tonight is very our last chance to see President Obama and Mitt Romney yell at each other, as well as debate issues, at the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
Apparently not everyone likes a rematch. Numbers are down across the board for last night's debate. We're a little less than three weeks away from the election's end, but everyone is getting jaded. You can't deny it, either. The truth is in the numbers.
It's wonderful being an American woman right now, because the last three weeks of the presidential campaign are going to be all about women. Well, it's only sort of wonderful, because while the campaigns will be paying women a lot of attention, they won't be treating women like they're smart.
Hate to spoil the party, but the whole "binders full of women" thing from last night's debate? It's already over. It was funny for about, let's say, fifteen minutes, but by the time the inevitable @Romneys_Binder Twitter account popped up (not to mention the single-service Tumblr and, ugh, the other binder Twitter), the joke had already flourished, matured, and died.
Tuesday evening we went down the old presidential debate road yet again, meeting our candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama for a second time with all the convivial discourse-ready trappings of America.
There were a couple exciting moments in the presidential debate last night when President Obama and Mitt Romney revealed they do not like each other very much. One of those was on the not-typically-emotionally-charged issue of energy permits. Relive it in our GIF anatomy of the fight.
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We live GIF-blogged the second presidential debate, and President Obama and Mitt Romney rewarded us for our efforts with a very confrontational show. If you missed the debate -- or if you want to relive all the best finger points and fact checks and zings -- here's our recap.
Despite griping from both parties for tonight's debate moderator Candy Crowley to stay quiet, she's been given free reign to ask as many follow up questions as she sees fit.
There are the public rules for each presidential debate -- how long the candidates get for each answer, how long they get to respond -- and then there are the secret rules their campaigns agreed to in a memorandum of understanding with the Commission on Presidential Debates.
The presidential campaign has reached a moment of rare bipartisan agreement: the candidates do not want Candy Crowley to do much of anything at the second presidential debate Tuesday.
Saturday Night Live is starting to hit its stride. Last night's episode started with an excellent cold open on the Vice-Presidential debate, strayed with a promising-but-flawed tech journalist sketch, and excelled with an appearance from a flirty Arianna Huffington on Weekend Update.
Today in Poll Watch: It's unclear who won the vice-presidential debate, and Mitt Romney is leading President Obama in Florida and New Hampshire.
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You may remember Jim Lehrer taking a beating after the last Presidential debate. Martha Raddatz, a reporter for ABC News, is moderating tonight's Vice-President debate. The people love her. They really, really love her.
Did you miss the vice-presidential debate? You can read the most important words -- and even better, watch the most important facial expressions right here, because The Atlantic Wire simultaneously liveblogged and live-GIF'd the fight between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Today in Poll Watch: Paul Ryan gets better favorability ratings heading into the vice-presidential debate Thursday, national tracking polls are again unclear for both candidates, Latino voters in Arizona overwhelmingly support President Obama, and Obama's up by 4 points in Florida despite one pollster calling the state for Mitt Romney.
If you had better things to do with your Saturday night than stay in and order a $5 online pay-per-view, be thankful that you didn't miss much by skipping the debate between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Conservatives are so thrilled with Mitt Romney's victory in the first presidential debate Wednesday night that they're not noticing how moderate he sounded.
If you're not as inherently excited about the prospect of tonight's debate as we are, we've put it into the context of a semantical drinking game, pairing drinks featuring low-to-high alcoholic content with the high-to-low likelihood of crutch words. Play along at home; debates start at 9 p.m. EDT.
The Romney campaign has spent the last few weeks hyping the event, but while doing so, they've made the curious decision to preview almost every single second of the candidate's debate performance in the press
Today, Elspeth Reeve noted that even the campaigns are treating the upcoming presidential debates as little more than a reality show. Why can't we just watch kittens instead, asks one commenter.
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The Commission on Presidential Debates released dates and details Wednesday so mark your calendar for a tension-filled Halloween season!
Sorry, journalists. If Newt Gingrich wins the nomination (which of course he will — believe!) he says he does not want journalists as debate moderators, because "you don’t need to have a second Obama person in the debate." We have some alternative suggestions.
The audiences are simultaneously one of the worst and most entertaining parts of the endless GOP debates, so we really don't want them to be silent.
Mitt Romney took the brunt of the attacks in last night's first South Carolina debate, with all the other remaining candidates looking to bring the front-runner back to the pack.
Though it appears Rick Perry doesn't meet any of CNN's criteria, the network says Gov. Rick Perry will be allowed to participate in next week's debate, because, apparently, Perry actually wants to submit himself to more debates.
It's going to be a two-man show in Des Moines on Dec. 27 as Michele Bachmann has decided to skip the Donald Trump-hosted Republican debate, leaving just Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich slated for the stage.
So far, the Republican presidential field has been slow to jump on Donald Trump's latest bandwagon.
Because it's a Tuesday, it's time for another Republican presidential debate; only this time, the pressure is on Newt Gingrich to see if he can succeed where so many others have failed.
Ron Paul hasn't gotten much attention at recent GOP debates and, as Politico's Dylan Byers reports, that streak may well continue at CNN's next square-off, where he'll be situated on the far right side of your TV screen in Santorum nowhereland.
Rick Perry struggled for several agonizing seconds to remember the last of the three federal agencies he'd cut during Wednesday's debate.
Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Plus: our liveblog starts around 7 p.m.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the latest Republican debate
Continuing the tradition of tasteless audience participation at GOP debates, jeers for an active-duty soldier
The Texan makes his debate debut at the Reagan Library at 8 ET tonight
Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty have a chance to change perceptions
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