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Aidan Williams

Obama Gets His Mojo Back - Bloomberg - 0 views

  • Apparently Barack Obama does want to be re-elected as president.
  • the president’s spirited performance
  • though Romney’s treatment of the president and the moderator, Candy Crowley of CNN, was occasionally too pugnacious
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  • Obama won pretty decisively on points
  • more responsive than Romney
  • responses tended to be more substantive
  • Romney’s was nonsensical, somehow morphing into a sermon about the need for two-parent families
  • It’s fair to say that Obama has done too little on gun control. For Romney’s party, however, that little is too much.
  • Obama has some real achievements to cite here
  • Romney’s answer, by contrast, was a conceptual and linguistic muddle
  • Romney’s performance suffered compared with the president’s
  • he got his facts wrong
  • allowing Obama to lecture him about playing politics
  • declining to elaborate
  • It’s not that Obama’s answer was bad
  • Could Obama get his mojo back? He could and did
Aidan Williams

US elections: Mitt Romney prepares for key televised election debate - Telegraph - 0 views

  • But the pressure is high for him to land some heavy blows, if not a killer punch, in a gladiatorial setting that has delivered some of the most memorable moments of American political theatre over four decades
  • wooden and with a recent track record of verbal gaffes
  • "comeback kid"
Aidan Williams

biden and ryan debate - chicagotribune.com - 1 views

  • gamut
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      The complete range or scope of something
  • castigated
  • malarkey
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  • Ryan responded that the country was going in the wrong direction, reminding Biden that the unemployment rate of his own hometown had grown to 10% from 8.5% since Obama took office.
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      Why would Ryan say this?!
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