Day: October 23, 2012
Romney Seemed ‘Nervous, Scattered’ in Third Debate
President Obama won the foreign policy debate, cleanly and decisively, on both style and substance. It was as clear a victory as Mitt Romney’s in the first debate. And Romney lost in similar fashion: he seemed nervous, scattered, unconvincing — and he practiced unilateral disarmament, agreeing with Obama hither and yon … on Iraq (as opposed to two weeks ago), on Afghanistan (as opposed to interviews he’s given this fall), on Libya and Syria and Iran. He didn’t have a single creative or elegantly stated foreign policy thought and, indeed, seemed foolish at times.
— Joe Klein, writing in Time’s “Swampland” column.
Millions Have Already Voted in Election
4 million
Ballots have been cast in early voting in more than two dozen states, reports the Associated Press.
‘America’s Worst Candidate’ Equates His Campaign with Jesus’
Jesus did not have a campaign staff. And he had the most successful campaign in human history.
— Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Mark Clayton (D), quoted by the Washington Post, in an article that says he “may be America’s worst candidate.”
Rest of the World Prefers Obama Over Romney
50% to 9%
A BBC World Service poll in 21 countries finds sharply higher overseas approval ratings for President Obama than Mitt Romney. Only Pakistan’s respondents said they would prefer to see Romney win November’s election.
Third Presidential Debate the Least Tweeted on Twitter
6.5 million
The number of tweets generated on Twitter during the third and final debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, which focused on foreign policy. That was less than New York’s 7.2 million tweets and Denver’s 10.3 million. The vice-presidential debate clocked in at 3.5 million tweets.
In Foreign Policy Debate, Romney Displays Ignorance of Geography of the Persian Gulf, Site of Two U.S. Wars in the Past 20 Years
Apparently, Herman “Uzbekstan-stan-stan” Cain helped with Mitt Romney’s geography prep going into the presidential debate on foreign policy last night — and it was not the first time he’d gotten the geography of the Middle East wrong:
