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Debates can make or break a candidate but often they have no real meaning. Public opinion in the last election said that Kerry won all three debates, yet he really got nothing for it. If the candidates really want to gain something from this they need to set forth a specific agenda and come off presidental and if, while doing that, they can manage to make the other guy look bad it could help.
Obama was brilliant in getting the agendas switched. This first debate was supposed to be on the economy, but he got that topic switched to the last debate and this one became about foreign policy. The public has a short memory and the economy is number one on people's minds so it was smart of him to get the economy changed to the last debate. If he does well in that the thing people will remember about the debates is that he knew his shit on the economy.
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