A puzzled George Stephanopoulos on Thursday wondered what happened to Barack Obama during the previous night's presidential debate. Talking to fellow Democrat Donna Brazile on Good Morning America, the host quizzed, "...A lot of the President's supporters, you see it on Twitter and in the blogs, you heard it on television last night, where was the president? Where was the fight?"
Brazile stayed on message, only allowing that Obama was "a little rusty." But Stephanopoulos worried, "But at least a lot of those early polls of the viewers who watched said that the President lost." In a tease for the show, Stephanopoulos speculated, "Did Romney turn the race around?"
Good Morning America reporter Jake Tapper was even more blunt. He noted, "Obama campaign officials conceding that Romney seemed more polished. They say they expect he will get a bump in the polls. Some Obama allies telling me that the President last night seemed tired and bored."
On Wednesday night, Stephanopoulos broke from his streak of declaring Democrats the winner in eight of the last nine presidential debates. The former Bill Clinton operative actually praised, "I think Governor Romney definitely more crisp in his presentation tonight....he was able to be aggressive without being offensive."
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