OBAMA ROMNEY DEBATE GETS BLOODY. OBAMA WINS BY DECISION.

While I certainly wouldn't say that democracy was saved by the performances of either candidate, Obama was the clear winner, regardless of what some of the polls may suggest. Overall, I thought Romney was pretty bad just not Ambien Obama bad. He struggled with some questions, got blindsided by Obama's blitz attacks and got fact checked mid debate by the moderator, who was AWESOME.

This makes two debates in a row where the moderators, both women, played the role they are supposed to play by acting like journalists. Some of you out there are too young to remember debates of old when journalists asked the questions like Sam Donaldson and Barbara Walters. Nowadays, they have been left on the junk heap of "progress" where, until recently, moderators where glorified referees with no input even when they candidates are spewing nonsense. It is the job of the press to do EXACTLY what Candy Crowley and Martha Radditz have done and I applaud them both for it. If Bob Schaffer tanks the next debate maybe we should have a law that only women get to moderate debates for now on.

As expected, the right is furious with Crowley for having the audacity to actually do her job and not sit on the sidelines like a drunken sailor. Just because your guy lies more than Obama, albeit last night was not a stellar example as both went toe to toe on who could out lie the other, doesn't mean Romney shouldn't be called out for an outrageous bold faced, PROVABLE lie. Enough is enough of that.

The polls show a clear win for the president even though it wasn't as decisive as the last debate as Romney didn't accidentally use the N-word, laugh at a poor person, or try to Mormonize anyone. A quick word about those polls: a lot of them are so unscientific they can barely be called polls. A better title would be: shit we made up to look as nonpartisan as possible but in the process destroyed any credibility this poll would have.

Wolf Blitzer kept repeating to the camera last night that the poll we were about to hear was a "real" scientific poll in which the president won by seven points. He then went on to explain that the poll contained 33% democrats, 33% republicans and 34% independents. The only problem with that is that demographic doe not exist in society. There are roughly 55 million registered Republicans. There are roughly 72 million Democrats. And there are roughly 42 million registered independents. That it is not an even split and thus the poll will skewer further to the right than the average demographic will. What this means if the poll was a true scientific poll than the participants must adhere to the percentage for each party and all other results thrown out. Instead, we have a poll that is tilted to the right, meaning Obama may have won bigger than the CNN poll allows.

And then there is Fox News. In a "focus group" after the debate, thirty old white people got up and declared their love for Romney and how they thought that Socialist Kenyan was a secret Muslim. Okay that last part didn't happen but I am sure many in that room where thinking it. There were no minorities at all in the room. There was nobody under the age of thirty. And almost all of them were Romney supporters. Shocker.

Last night the one thing that Romney did that hurt more than anything else, and yes it was worse than the smackdown Candy Crowley gave him over Obama's Benghazi statement, were his answers on immigration. He did not win a single percentage point with Latinos with his responses and that may be enough to cost him the election, especially a key state like Florida which I predict will swing back toward Obama in the coming days. If women weren't being the dumbest people on earth by voting to have the GOP have complete control over their bodies, Obama would be sailing away with this by now. And anyone who doesn't think the Republicans won't destroy every last bit of the New Deal is living in a fantasy world.

Mind you, last night both candidates spewed forth a lot of bull. Neither has an economic plan to save this country that will work (I do but it would require rich people to pay a LOT more in taxes and raising the minimum wage to at least $12 an hour), both have HORRIBLE ideas when it comes to saving Social Security (Eliminating the income cap would save SS through 2100), and neither have any inclination to stopping the War On Drugs, a proven failure (Legalize pot, decriminalize small amounts of everything else, focus on large dealers instead). Instead we got pointless ideas that will not work for either party and sound bites instead of substance. Romney takes the cake on that as he refuses to be specific about anything and some voters don't seem to care. When the world falls apart don't come crying to me because you have the brains of a rice pudding.

Whoever wins, the sheer amount of death threats on sites like Twitter against either candidate is kind of shocking. First, the Secret Service will show up at your door. And two, what good would an assassination against either candidate accomplish? Either you wind up with President Biden or President Ryan and neither of those possibilities give me the warm and fuzzies.

In all honesty, these debates suck. I wish we could have people like Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, even Virgil "wildly insane" Goode up there to answer questions that the two parties aren't. We are still not having a discussion about anything that matters. We are literally watching Nero play his fiddle while the rest of us burn.