If Reagan comes back, he won't be helping this choom gang refugee.

Romney will play chess while Obama wil play checkers. Romney never had to use any backup "moves" Wed eve.
2nd Candy debate will be great for our side.

Reagan's approval rating was well above 50% for all of 1984. He had a reservoir of goodwill that was a mile deep that buoyed his campaign. Obama is clinging (bitterly) to an approval in the high 40s on a good day and at this point cannot make a case for a 2nd term no matter how well be performs at the town hall meeting in 2 weeks.

Romney had better be prepared for the next debate show (and I think he will).

First, Candy Crowley has already telegraphed her punches that she'll be solidly in Obama's corner this time. Although Lehrer set up a couple softballs for Obama, he wasn't wise enough to take advantage of them and so Lehrer decided that he'd let the candidates fend for themselves (which is, really, how it is).

If Obama tries the "well, there you go again" routine, Romney should nail him to the wall with pesky little things called FACTS. $5-6 trillion in deficit spending with at best nothing to show for it; more government control in our lives now and to come; restrictions on religious liberty to allow government to control our lives; worsening rather than better relationships with our allies AND our opponents; fewer people working today than in 30 years.

I expect Obama's mean streak to come out, if not this debate, certainly in the finale.

But be prepared for anything. And don't expect the moderator to be anything but an Obama stooge.

There is nothing Obama can do to best Romney in a debate. The other GOP candiates couldn`t do it during primary season an Obama won`t either. Romney only needs to use the facts at hand and perhaps use that great line again - `I don`t know what`s you`re talking about`.

Pres. Reagan and Obama should really never be mentioned in the same sentence, unless it was being reported that Obama bowed to a portrait or statue of Pres. Reagan.

Pres. Reagan was a true American!

I was alive during the Reagan presidency. He inspired me to become a US Citizen. Odumbo is no Reagan.

...wouldn't hold my breath...they want you to believe that the "townhall" format will be better for 0bama...he will better connect...it will NOT be an sudience of kool-aid drinking followers...it is suppose to be "undecided" voters...(though supplied by Gallup)...

...without the teleprompter he will have to once again ahhhhhha and ummmm his way through. I can not see it getting any better for him in the next two...

First of all, i don't think Mr. Romney shows up anywhere unprepared. I think he's a very careful man, a careful thinker.

And if he learned anything from the Primaries, it is to be well-prepared to fight. He's not perfect --who is? But he is reflective, and he seems much more able to learn and adjust.

However, feisty (well, sort of) as Romney can be, he is not nasty, sarcastic, snide or rude. These are BO characteristics, on display Wednesday night, and in full force Thursday morning, when he needed to try to blunt the poor debate performance, like a hang-over the next morning.

President Reagan was a charming man. He was strong and firm, but he had an elegant way of confronting those who tried to cut him off at the knees. BO is schooled in vitriol, not grace.

As for the Town Hall style debate being a more comfortable format for BO, let's not forget some of the most hilarious flub-ups happened at BO town hall meetings!

It will be delicious if such faux pas occur. There will be no way for the media nursemaids to censor them out. Oh i hope i hope i hope.

Romney will cream him once again; I guarantee it, because he knows his Achilles heel. Everyone here knows that The Empty Chair is a narcissist of the highest order, and we also know that Romney represents everything that he despises, a successful, honest American. That is why when Romney used the line about raising five sons and being used to someone telling him something untrue, over and over trying to make him believe it, The Won was seething and thrown completely off his game. All Romney need do is once again deftly point out that he is a liar, and the Man Child will come unglued.

No way in Hell..Communist's don't invoke Reagan they invoke Mao and Lennin.

What he needs is a Carter-style bum's rush.

If 0bama wants to successfully debate Romney, he should have started 45 years ago. But he didn't. He was with the Choom gang. You cannot make up 51 wasted years in thirteen days!

Absolutely correct, OP, #10, and #11. 0bama has been "President" for three years now, and yet he is still the most unprepared POTUS in the history of the United States. He is no match for an actual leader. And Romney, who is no shrinking violet and who is clearly not threatened by 0bama, has so much ammunition to use against him that would take at least a dozen debates to get through it all. For Benghazi alone, Barack 0bama is unqualified to lead this country. A dead Ambassador's blood, and the blood of three other American diplomats, is on HIS hands.

I saw a report about Obama giving a campaign speech today and the second his eyes left the teleprompter, he stumbled and muttered. You could see his eyes going back to the teleprompter and he would start getting it right again. He simply cannot function without it.

"There is nothing Obama can do to best Romney in a debate. The other GOP candiates couldn`t do it during primary season an Obama won`t either."

Very good point: Romney has been in training for this all year, and he's already been through a number of debates, for real, not just in practice sessions. When was Obama's last debate? In 2008, against McCain, who did everything but kneel and offer him the crown three times. It's like one of our hockey players explained, going back to Europe to play because the NHL is locked out: over there, at this time of year, the players are already in game mode, they're ready to play. It's not the same, just doing practice skates in an empty rink and no real game in sight. If he wants to remain a top player, he has to go where he can actually play. Obama just never had to be a real debater, even 4 years ago, and since then he's become flabby and careless.

I like Rasmussen, but this is a silly conjecture. Obama is a loser, and likely a serious drug addict as well. Reality is just catching up with him. If obama had any sense, he would just step down, same as what LBJ did.