Monday 1 October 2012

Debate Obama / Romney: "You're the strongest Mitt" / "No it is you Barack!"

Three days of debate, the U.S. presidential candidates are covered with compliments. A change in tone of the campaign strategically and provisional.
A three-day debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the Democrats and the Republicans are trying as hard as possible to lower expectations about their candidate and increase those of its rival. It goes something like, "You're the best Barack" / "No, you're Mitt" or, as summarized in this tweet exceeded the Politico reporter Ben White:

    
"The idea put forward the debate:" I'm just happy if my guy does not vomit blood and not killed with an ax our rival. '"
This game, called the Motions Motions expectation game (the game on expectations of the debate), is a figure also forced the U.S. presidential campaign debates that themselves. In 2004, Matthew Dowd, one of the most senior officials of the George W. Bush campaign, went as far as saying that John Kerry was "the best debater since Cicero" ...
Part 2012 is played in seven episodes:


Episode 1: "Mitt has never been so close"
It all starts with a memo from Jim Messina, the campaign democrat who says September 20 after "weeks of intense preparations for the debate, including five false debates in just 48 hours," Mitt Romney is "fast, well established and ready to attack the President so punchy. "Episode 2: "Barack is very new and I am"
September 25, Mitt Romney leads the way compliments on Fox News saying:

    
"The President is clearly a gifted and eloquent speaker, he will come out very well. Me, you know, I've never participated in a presidential debate like this, and it will be a new experience. "

Episode 3: "Barack is too busy saving the world and he talks too much"
The next day, a spokesman for the Democratic campaign says that the debate will be difficult for the applicant:

    
"He had to balance the country with his role as president and managing world events. [...] There will be less time than we had planned to sharpen and reduce its tendency to give long answers and substantial. "

Episode 4: "Barack is the best communicators in the world"
Really, Mitt Romney knows nothing about the discussions! Beth Myers, Romney's campaign, says the 27 that Obama is "widely regarded as one of the most talented communicators policies in modern history," adding that it will be his eighth presidential debate and only the first of Mitt Romney and McCain reminding Obama had dominated in 2008.
At this stage, notes Alexander Burns of Politico, "If two candidates are able to tie their shoelaces and walk all alone until the big podiums, Myers and Messina will be surprised."


Episode 5: "Anyway, it's challengers win the debate"
But the Obama campaign is not going to let it be, and Friday 28, David Axelrod memo sends his own, where he says:

    
"Already, we expect a Mitt Romney prepared, disciplined and offensive, as it was during the primaries. [...] Then, debates, and particularly the first debate, are generally favorable to challengers. Five of the last six challengers were seen as winners of their first debate against an incumbent president. "
Episode 6: "Mitt was really bad" (Paul Ryan) vs. "You kidding, Mitt will tear everything" (Chris Christie and John McCain)
The Republican candidate has seen his downright vice president come to its rescue, September 30, when Paul Ryan summarized the arguments against his party's candidate on Fox News:

    
"Listen, Obama is a gifted orator. It is on the national scene for years, he has experience in the debates, he has already done this kind of debate. This is the first time Mitt on stage of this magnitude. "
The same Sunday, three days hence the debate, different story for Republicans: The New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on another channel that the debate would be the beginning of a new era for the country, and that, Basically, Mitt will surprise us all. John McCain, after noting that the two candidates were "excellent," says Mitt him a "more recent experience" debate.


Episode 7: "I, Barack, good in debate?
Not at all! "
Also Sunday, Barack Obama, in a rare burst of modesty, it remains on the same arguments aired last week by his campaign at a rally in Las Vegas:



    "Governor Romney is a good debate. I'm doing right "
 Finally, both parties agree on one same language element: in any case, the debate is not that important. The New York Times notes as Beth Myers wrote in his memo that "the election will not be decided by debates" but by "the American people" and that David Axelrod "in this debate, Americans will not be count balance that currently most of spades or the fastest out a short sentence. " Paul Ryan also stated that "a single event will not make or break the campaign."

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