Obama's Flat Performance

The article “Debate Praise for Romney as Obama is Faulted as Flat” is show casing that Obama provided a lackluster debate against Mitt Romney. The author, Michael D. Shear, is the chief writer for The Caucus, the political blog for The New York Times. He is advising political followers of both parties, who are his target audience, that Mitt Romney out performed Barack Obama in his first ever general election debate. The author discusses his opinion that most political followers were surprised that Mitt Romney performed as well as he did. Supporting evidence of his theory is echoed by Stephen F. Hayes of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. He wrote after the debate “In a thoroughly dominating performance, Romney bested Barack Obama in both tone and substance,” “Obama often found himself at the end of a verbal cul-de-sac, seemingly unaware of how he’d ended up there.” Mitt Romney attacked Barack Obama on his lack of following through with his promises that lead to his presidential election in 2008. Mitt Romney focused on the raising prices and taxes that Obama’s administration has allowed. In my opinion, I agree with the author here. I do believe that Mitt Romney picked apart Barack Obama’s debate. Mitt Romney found holes in Obama’s policies and turned the nations focus toward lowering taxes and helping the middle class. Mitt Romney is trailing in the campaign polls and this debate helped close the gap however it didn’t change the overall lead in Mitt Romney’s favor.