Still 30 min. away but the intoxicating aroma of chipotle garlic cheddar popcorn hangs heavy in the air.

The buzz of the blender...

The charlar of friends...

The whine of the lefties...

Life is good.

Please pray for Mitt right now and all through the debate.

Popcorn popped... Lets GET IT ON

Holy Spirit, be with Governor Romney this evening. Inspire his thoughts and words as only You can, for the fate of our republic rests on this good man's shoulders. This we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.

Amen now let's roast Obama!

I ate my popcorn early because everytime I see The Won's face, I wretch. I don't want to ruin the enjoyment of the snack. Go Mitt!

He spent 20 seconds thanking people.. C'mon mitt! Short and sweet..

The moderator is a sour puss.

No debate thread?

Ohh sweet burn... Romney got a good one with the bankruptcy.. This is gonna be a good debate.

Direct question - do you support your energy secretary's comments that lowering gas prices is not part of your policy... great question, Obama avoiding direct answer. His energy sec. is part of the problem. Gov Romney: let's look at the policies.. yes! Oil production down on federal land. Why? Cut in half the # of licenses and permits. Mitt's totally winning on this answer.

Obama is a liar.

Answer romneys question muppet!! He's avoiding it...

Romney's kicking behind on energy. I hope he brings up the latest Obama failure - that electric car battery factory that's going belly up.

I would love to be in that "same mess" if it meant gas would go back to $1.87 a gallon!

Candy Moo-cow is losing control

Romney is being a tad rude when he interrupts the moderator but Obama is getting roasted!

No prob with Romney being a tad rude. He cut her off when he had to and if she's not going to play by the rules why should he? I smell a MAJOR rout here. O is struggling.

Actually, Obama has raised taxes on middle class and lower-income earners. Next year, flexible spending account deductions are limited to $5,000. And the health care deduction is raised from 7.5% to 10%. This really hurts people who don't make that much and may well exceed the 7.5% limit.

More than predictably, Boss Hogg Crowley has twice stopped Romney from replying to lies by Obama. Obama was so emboldened that he tried interrupting and talking over Mitt himself. Mitt effectively told him to shut up, sit down, and wait his turn. Obama did.

I meant to say that flexible spending accounts are limited to $2,500--formerly $5,000. This is another tax increase on the middle class.

@tangerine dream
Good point! She isn't being strict with the times or anything. And Obama is straight up lying to us now...

But at the end of the day Obama is still "black."

The moderator so far is letting Obama rebut every time he wants to, but Romney gets cut off. Every time Romney lands one, she turns to Obama and says, Oh, Really, is is True??? She doesn't do that the other way around. I truly wonder if she knows this is not fair.

He did mention what he wants to do--limit deductions. How does Obama plan to balance the budget, by the way? He can't even pass a budget.

Candy cuts Romney off and won't let him respond but, she sure lets obama go on and on. Mitt should just punch him out and be done with it.

Crowley's a disgrace

Romney is hitting hard on Obama's fiscal policies--or lack thereof. But now Crowley is cutting him off!

Obama is black and everyone kisses up to him because of it... Where would all this be if Obama was white? He wouldn't have made the primaries I *guarantee* that

And now a softball to Obama--about equality in the workplace.

Yay Mitt! Candy keeps holding Romney to the rule but letting Obama just wander all over. But Romney knows so much he can get through anyway. Gotta be a genius.

How has the federal loan program made college more affordable? Students are just as much in debt as when the banks made the loans.

I don't know if I can watch much longer.

Mitt should say Who are you ? Where have you been for the last four years ?

I do not like the moderator.

Apparently this is the defacto debate thread. Thanks for the replies. I'm too nervous to watch.

Romney has such good,factually backed, solid answers but everyone seems to have their head up their butt if they will re-elect Obama

Iirc, Obama doesn't pay women on his staff at the same rate as men. It's less. So much for his version of equality.

What the heck is the Lily Ledbetter law? What does contraception have to do with pay equality?

I agree #24, it would the same as as a judge asking one party or the other at trial, "Are you okay with what your opponent just said?" "Don't you want to defend yourself?"--And Candy Crowley is nowhere near being a judge.

Barky gets the last word every time.

It's a liberal thing.

Gives the appearance of 'winning'.

Barry's playing the contraceptive/healthcare card....pandering to the max ..

again Obama gets to rebut just where he was struck hard. Romney never gets that. Moderator moves on, or tells him he'll get time in the future, or rephrases the question. Yet I think she is doing her best and is so biased she does not know this is not fair. Again and again.

I'm watching on CNN (yeah, I know...) but they have a meter gauging the immediate response of "Undecided Voters"... Romney is scoring well with women.

This questioner looks like a liberal--and she's bringing up Bush.

So close! She almost stopped Obama when the time was up... But then she let him finish.... Bias much?

Mitt drawing a bright line between his economic plan & Bush's....threading the needle nicely along with a jab @ 0bama

She's providing some Affirmative Action to Obama ...

Oh that was a burn... Obama doubled the deficit! True though, he says one thing and does another. Politician much?

I knew candy would lean way left to help barry. She is a hack. Any foreign policy questions?

Obama keeps saying all that he wants to do - he's had 4 years, why hasn't he done it?

What has Obama done to stand up to China?

Romney looks strong and serious about getting the job done for us. obama has looked (and acted) like 7th grade, imho.
And now he's lecturing, imho.

Reduced taxes on the middle class and business? What about Obamacare? SCOTUS says it is a tax, didn't they?

Thanks #42 I switched to see and obama has gotten more speaking time but, I bet he will claim he didn't but, it's right there on the screen.

Yes and I have desert land in Key West for sale too!!!

Oh yes, there it is. Bin Laden is dead. Can't let that go unsaid. Again.

Dumb question from the bald guy elicits Barry's patented stump speech of prevarications. 0bama's got nothing but sound bites.

Now a black voter asks a question--to Obama. A lot of "us" are struggling? He isn't. Now he wants credit for trying. This question was teed-up, no doubt.

Obama has created 5m jobs????/ Maybe in China or India.

Obviously several questioners are New York liberals pretending to be undecideds. But Romney is still winning, going away.

Obama has already racked up an additional 5 minutes more time than Gov. Romney.

Nice job, Candy. /s off/

Thank you God for giving Mitt a mighty brain. He has so much to deal with, but he can. Not losing his temper and not losing the argument either.

Good response by Romney. If Obama is re-elected we'll get another four years like the last four (in spades, Mrs. Berg added from the other chair).

Romney goes into a rather well articulated litany of 0bamafailures including 0bamacare and then calls him on the lie about "creating jobs" and then on to food stamps... Mitt is shooting lame ducks in a barrel

Romney is presenting solid policies which actually address the fiscal disasters which have been created by 0bama's radical lefty statist policiesthroughout the past 4 years. In response, 0bama just repeats his same old failed ideas. He has no logical excuses for the horrible results of his agenda but insists he plans to continue those same already failed policies.

0bama repeatedly proclaims, (-deems?!), he wants his BIG Government, ''to control,'' energy!?!! This guy does not understand the blessings of America's free enterprise system, nor doe he respect the innovations for the future and JOBS capitalism provides! 0bama thinks ONLY government should be, ''in control?!'' -YIKES!!

Mitt's answer in progress right now is his best so far. A clear win on this exchange.

This is a ridiculous bias!! Crowley get it together!

Barry sure is blinking his eyes a lot. About once a second.

Mitt is doing great with questions concerning pet liberal issues. This cow better not let the clock run out w/o the foreign policy questions getting in.

Mitt's answer on immigration is also very sensible.

Romney is smarter. Much. I think Obama is beginning to wear down and stumble. Do others think so? He's just becoming shrill and insistent and saying nothing new.

Mitt's answers are easy to understand. They come from his heart, mind and soul. obama is halting and he speaks in circles...like he really doesn't know what he's saying, imho.

No contest.

Can kenyans self-deport?

Candy just might cancel the foreign policy segment. Why not it serves the "greater good" to fix this debate on Barry's behalf.

Obama is interrupting--he sounds like a petulant school kid.

Barry's getting schooled again.

That cow keeps screwing over Romney...

When is there going to be a foreign policy question? O is filibustering. This next question is on Libya.

Mitt is pointing out that 0bama does not keep his promises regarding immigration reform. 0bama's entire rhetoric is punctuated with such lies about the actual results of his policies.

Unbelievable. President interrupts, moderator lets him. Romney wants the rest of his time without interruption, moderator points to people waiting to talk and hurries Romney. Then Obama gets to stand up and make a peroration off topic.

FINALLY..... some foreign policy!!!!

That's because he is, #74. (But you already knew that.)

0bama doing the Libyan tap dance now....Mitt is drooling

Have you noticed that Candy has so much, uh, padding that she is 3 inches taller when she sits down?

Obama turned foreign policy into a campaign issue all through the last campaign. What a hypocrite.

No he is trying to score political point with his alleged national security successes! It's only off-limits for his opponents.

Romney is doing a stellar job under less than favorable circumstances.

#79 not only is Obama ROBBING him of time, he's not answering the questions... He did nothing about that ambassador and he's lying now

Pathetic answer on Libya by obama. UNACCEPTABLE ACTIONS AND STALLING BY THIS ADMINISTRATION.

Ya don't go off to Las Vegas on a politicalfund-raiser when there is a crisis either, 0bama!

Any foreign policy, or is candy going to cheat Romney until time runs out?

Obama's got four more minutes. Let him keep talking. His talk is cheap. Romney's saying more.

The guy asked why wasn't extra security provided.

Obama never - NEVER - answered that question.

And Romney is now pounding it. Good!

Be nice #83. This debate is going on 75 min. now and it's the longest she's gone without food in decades.

Romney is giving it right back to Obama on how a President should act in a crisis.

Strange.. why isn't Mitt bringing up that the administration claimed the attack in Benghazi was about the video??

He didn't say it was an act of terror the day after the attack! Two weeks later, he suggested at the UN it was the movie! He did, in fact, says Candy. Who is applauding? I thought the audience was non-partisan.

Got him Romney! He lied for two weeks about the assassination and now he's saying the very DAY after he knew it...

Ok.. he's now brought it up but it could have been clearer and more pointed. Many Bam heads are not aware.

A gun control question to Obama--this is so fixed.

Nicole wallace, mccain's debate coach, declared obama a winner BEFORE the debate. Guess she is still on the soros payroll.