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Can Obama debate his way back into the game?
Tuesday October 16, 2012 07:49:52 PM,
Arun Kumar,
IANS
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Washington: All eyes
are on Tuesday night's second presidential debate. Would US
President Barack Obama get back into the game with a "stronger,
more assertive performance" or would another "bad night" seal his
fate in a dead-heat White House race?
Most media reports on Tuesday's debate at Hofstra University in
Long Island, New York, portray the race as either a virtual tie or
Obama to lose even as they note of the polling boost Republican
challenger Mitt Romney has enjoyed since the first debate Oct 3.
"Even Obama's widely panned first debate outing only moved the
polls a bit - though, given the closeness of the race, that was
enough to alter the contest's momentum," wrote the Los Angeles
Times Tuesday while the CBS Evening News reported Monday, "It's a
tie."
"There has been no huge defection of Democrats to Romney, whose
uptick in polls has resulted largely from a firming up of
Republican support and gains among some independents," the Times
said.
The town hall format of the debate, where members of the audience
ask questions, is said to favour the president, who is described
repeatedly as possessing superior interpersonal skills, according
to the Political Bulletin, an influential aggregator of political
news.
"Consequently, despite the president's own acknowledgment that he
underperformed in Denver, Romney is once again cast as the
underdog," it said.
But the Romney campaign "fret(s) that no matter how well Romney
does... the media will inevitably award victory" to the president
because "everyone loves a comeback", according to Politico, an
influential news site focusing on presidential politics.
"It's going to be very hard to find observers to say (Obama) was
just as bad as he was in the first debate... the last debate sort
of lowered a lot of expectations in the minds of many observers,"
a "senior Romney adviser" was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign reported that it
had raised $170 million in September, the Republican party's
"biggest haul of the campaign cycle", but it falls "short of the
staggering $181 million monthly total reported by President
Obama's re-election campaign", according to the Washington Post.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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