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You're leaving out quite a few analyses that say Obama let Romney make all those false assertions on the opening night and every one of them is going to come back to haunt Romney in later debates (especially the ones where Romney raced to the center, contradicting things he told his "far right base").
Do I think that was a good tactic? Not necessarily. In debate, it isn't a good idea to let false or unsupported assertions go unchallenged.
So I give Obama a C- for debate technique, but I'll give Romney an F for the number of outright falsehoods. Not my opinion - but the opinion of a pile of independent fact checkers. He even repeated already debunked falsehoods. So it goes.
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