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DENVERâ€"Mitt Romney took the debate stage here with top Republicans verging on panic over his listless and accident-prone campaign, publicly second-guessing their party’s nominee and privately hedging their bets as they contemplated the long odds he was facing.
He left the stage as a man who had won a debate, a reprieve from early obituaries, and at least the possibility of a fresh look from the relatively narrow slice of voters still open to persuasion in a highly polarized electorate.
Continue ReadingAs with any performance, a debate score is in the eye of the beholder. At least on stylistic grounds, however, a clear consensus of early reviewsâ€"most notably from liberal commentators dismayed by Obama’s lackluster outingâ€"judged Romney as having the superior evening, with a spirited personal demeanor, crisply delivered lines, and a bullet-pointed policy message that kept its focus on jobs while parrying many of Obama’s attacks.
At a minimum, Romney’s performance has chased away the aroma of terminal illness that was starting to emanate from his campaign and the increasingly restive factions in and around his operation. He has given conservatives a performance to rally behind, likely stalled any effort by GOP moneymen to start directing money away from the presidential race in favor of congressional races, and, not least, bolstered his own self-confidence after weeks of painful stubbed toes and jeering commentary.
Whether he gets more than this minimum payoff is far from certain, given the deficit he was facing in both national polls and, more troublingly, several must-win swing states. Some supporters hoped he would immediately turn the debate into television commercials. Nearly all said he must channel the elements that made his Denver performance impressiveâ€"in particular, sharpening the contrast with Obama through a forward-looking policy messageâ€"in the next two presidential debates and in his daily events.
“It gives Mitt Romney the opportunity now to have more key people, undecided voters, listen to what he’s staying,†said Rob Portman (R-OH), who has been playing Obama in debate preparations.
“We saw such a strong and effective leader tonight that I’d like to see some of this in the advertising plan,†said Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.).
“This was a make or break moment for the Romney campaign and he delivered,†said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), adding, with a chuckle: “A lot of my colleagues who are in tough races were really encouraged by what they saw tonight. They saw somebody ready to run this thing to the finish line.â€
David Axelrod, Obama’s top strategist, said he expected Romney to enjoy a bump in the polls of one to three points.
The recurring phrase from Republicans about their often-ill-at-ease nominee: Where has this guy been? One joke making the rounds was that the Mormon Romney had his first cup of coffee.
“I don’t think anybody out there who watched this objectively couldn’t come away from it saying this is a very different candidate than what we’ve been reading and hearing about,†Thune said.
Wednesday’s showing, these Republicans and others said, was the first time many voters saw a version of Romney as something other than the gaffe-prone plutocrat that Obama has so effectively caricatured in TV ads.
Many of his lines put the emphasis on his own solutions as much as criticism of Obamaâ€"a clear contrast from his nomination acceptance speech in Tampa that notably failed to help his trajectory.
Romney was helped by a surprisingly drowsy and dull-edged performance by Obama. The president made no major blunders, and he was consistent in his argument that Romney’s fiscal proposals are unrealistic and irresponsible, forcing a choice between huge deficits or big tax increases on the middle class. But he seemed sedate in demeanor, his words full of pauses and even at times nervous stammers, and he sometimes gave off an air of weariness or impatience toward the proceeding.
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