After months of stump speeches and negative ad campaigns, Americans were able to see the two presidential candidates face each other for the first time Wednesday night at the University of Denver.
The first of three debates focused on the economy and domestic policy, which many Americans say is a high priority.
Before the debate, many predicted the victory would go to President Obama.
"President Obama is the most gifted speaker in modern political history," said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul to ABC in an effort to lower expectations about the Republican candidate's upcoming performance.
Comments like that led President Obama to respond with a milquetoast assessment of his own skills: "Gov. Romney is a good debater. I'm just OK," he said.
Post-debate, many analysts said that Governor Romney had given a solid performance, and that the President had appeared disengaged.
“Romney was able to out-Obama Obama,” said one CNN panelist.
Others, like former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, criticized Romney for not providing specifics on how he would pay for tax cuts and replace Obamacare.
So tell us in the comments, who do you think gave the better debate performance, and why?
I don't own a tablet or smartphone. The stop following option is not available on a PC either. The only thing that we can do is to keep deleting the email notifications until the thread retires. It's kinda like the dog that constantly barks day and night up here, hopefully the owners will move away or the dog will eventually die. In the meantime, we just have to "deal with it".
Informing others is what I like best, even if Masi doesn't like what I write about, I have some opinions,,,,,,,right now it is that Biden is a cold, smirking, smug, child snickering, rude person,and I am so glad I can vote for Ryan,,,,,,he tried so hard to be polite to the rediculosly rude Biden. Jane ( Belle, this is a place for posting comments, there is not a limit.)
jane
As you blast away at Romney, I am sure he is getting more votes as you post this drizzle. jane (it takes a real man to admit his mistakes).
Sharon, no I am not an orchid expert, but orchids are my hobby. If you want to ask me any orchid questions I can try to help. Use the search bar on the Patch page (top right) and search for "Sound off" and ask me on that thread so we can leave this thread for political debate. Belle
contacting her off-site. Thanks for the orchid tip.
http://napavalley.patch.com/articles/sound-off-napa-here-s-a-place-to-rant#comments_list
You know your thoughts are always welcome here and I can't imagine what you could have said to be flagworthy; could this be a glitch?
The Patch did not delete any of my posts. But I tried to unfollow this thread by clicking on that button, it did not do anything at all. The only way to not get email from an individual post from the Patch is to choose not to get any at all. I have done it before on a different computer that I still have , it worked! They will show a message that they are sorry to see you go. Like I said, for now, we have to "deal with it" or do away with all email notifications, those are the choices.
it may be possible to not get email responses to a post if the VERY first time a person posts on a particular thread, they decline email notifications. I don't know for sure, but it is too late for most of us now. Each site has different methods of doing things, and sometimes even the site administrators don't really know what is going on, for they are only human. With computers, sometimes it is up to the users to figure out how they "do their do" and to make them "do what we need them to do". Always learning something new every day, by trial and error. We go as we go.
1. Go to http://www.patch.com 2. Select your desired location on the right 3. If you are not signed in, click Sign In at the top right and enter your login credentials 4. Hover over your name in the top right and click Account 5. Click Following on the left under More Stuff 6. Click Stop Following under any article
I already tried it on the original article and it did not work, but maybe this will. BTW, when clicking on stop following under more stuff , there was no change or indication that I had actually successfully done that, like a change after I clicked to start following again. So, if this does indeed stop following, is their a way to start following again ? Thanks again.
Let's hear it!