Romney campaign seeks to lower immediate expectations for upcoming debate
WASHINGTON, DC: Longtime Romney campaign adviser Beth Myers apparently feels that her own candidate won’t come out on top of the first debate of the season.
In a campaign memo provided to CNN, Myers noted a few reasons she believes Obama will emerge as the victor in the first debate next week.
– President Obama is “widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history.”
– “This will be the eighth one-on-one presidential debate of his political career. For Mitt Romney, it will be his first.”
– “Four years ago, Barack Obama faced John McCain on the debate stage. According to Gallup, voters judged him the winner of each debate by double-digit margins, and their polling showed he won one debate by an astounding 33-point margin.”
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