My partisanship makes me more than slightly biased when I watch political debates, though I did not think there was a clear victor in this one. Obviously, Romney speaks better than McCain did back during the '08 election, but overall, his points were vague and uninformative. Rather than explicitly state what his plans would be if he were to be elected, he just stated what they would do. "My plan will do x..." But it is a problem when you do not actually discuss what that plan actually is.
President Obama did not seem to have his greatest debate tonight either, though I have less specific criticisms of him, again, because of my own partisanship. He did spend a lot of time on the defensive, it seemed, while Romney more on the attack, which I suppose makes sense, with Obama being the incumbent and all.
I do wish that the moderator had more power to cut them off when their times were up or when he wanted to move onto a different topic. A lot of issues were not discussed (I was particularly interested in discussions concerning Planned Parenthood or abortion or similar topics, none of which came up) because the two candidates were able to run all over the moderator (and yes, both of them did this a lot). In addition, I would like it if the moderator can call either candidate out on incorrect facts (thus perhaps having fact-checkers with him or her as well).
I'm definitely going to watch the other debates as well. Hopefully the moderators will be a bit better, at the very least.
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