First 2012 Presidential Debate: Did Mitt Romney Gain Ground on President Obama?

The Obama campaign concedes that the Republican candidate seemed more polished and prepared.

[dmoney]

Who is here after the Trump and Biden debate?

[afiqashraf]

When you realized that past candidates are more matured than present

[poopwater]

BRO LOOK AT HOW DIFFERENT JAKE TAPPER LOOKS

[gabygabytoy]

Two decent men. Not perfect, but doing their very best.

[xMarkie]

Compared to trump... my god these are two fantastic men. Romney and McCain were fantastic. What happened to classy republicans

[RagingBull-golo]

I wish Presidential Debates could be like this again.

[magnummagnets]

What he's saying is that the federal govt. is very unefficient, when you generalize something it almost always becomes less efficient. Letting the states handle it would be much more efficient. Having the choice between private healthcare, or public would lower prices on private healthcare because of competition. The private sector has built America, the only thing the govt. should do is make necessary regulations, protect us, and keep track of our money. Obamacare doesn't cover everything.

[epo]

Romney was the strongest one in this debate. But there are several debates to come, so time will tell.

[dianasoto]

You mean the congress and the judicial branch?

[bmejia]

So the win goes to Romney for being more aggressive says a lot about our people. Obama did better for being more reserve and collected

[peopleofthecircle]

The main stream media, and of course, the Right is ignoring what is important - their POSITIONS. Fact checking, analysis, etc., is what matters!

[dianasoto]

Just to remind you, they are 3 branches. They are have equal balance. It's called check and balance. :) Nobody has more power over another. That's why the constitution was created. That was what our founder fathers feared. Yes if the 2/3 of congress have the mayority vote the bill is passed without the authority of the president.. Therefore; this is really important. All of them have the same power. Each and every branch is important.
Each and every branch have the same fault.

[ikram]

I know who she is and I dont like her, you either misunderstood her or she is wrong cause fact checkers checked it. Ok actually lets be fair, Mitt never actually says what his plan is so no one really know what its about, it does cost 5k but we dont know if what Obama says it does is true cause Mitt never said what it actually does. Mitt/GOP are nothing but talking points, absolutely no specifics, Obama does go into specifics, 2700 page bill is specific.

[ikram]

I dont care what she says, what he said wasnt wrong, Mitt Romney does not have a plan! Its just some vague idea so we dont know if what Obama says about it is true or not. How can you vote for a guy if you dont even know what hes gona do? the GOP dont want the economy to get better they just want to be in the WH, and no I was talking about obamacare, it got passed so suck it, I didnt say Mitt had to be overly specific in the debate, he needs to be specific when writing a proposal, which he isnt!

[Heresjonnhy]

i'm from portugal and if i could i would vote for obama a million times!!

[TankPwnz]

Romney did quite well in this first debate. However, I believe the VP and 2nd debate went to the Obama Biden ticket. We'll see how it goes next week. Everyone remember to vote.

[KYExtemper]

I still wish Romney won this race all these years later. Last Republican candidate for president I was enthusiastic in voting for.

[TheWolfJL]

God i hope so, for the sake of America and it's people

[PhilipScottJohnson]

You must have watched another Obama had nothing but stale rehash of talking points

[ikram]

I dont care what she says, what he said wasnt wrong, Mitt Romney does not have a plan! Its just some vague idea so we dont know if what Obama says about it is true or not. How can you vote for a guy if you dont even know what hes gona do? the GOP dont want the economy to get better they just want to be in the WH, and no I was talking about obamacare, it got passed so suck it, I didnt say Mitt had to be overly specific in the debate, he needs to be specific when writing a proposal, which he isnt!