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THREE DAYS IN
OCTOBER
mance the previous night, and
Will.i.am told a somber story
about the need to stay positive.
Nobody on the Obama campaign
— not Messina or anyone else —
was pondering which beer they
might be drinking on Nov. 7.
The Ohio Republican who had
complained of Romney being
“stuck” before the debate, told me
several days after the debate that
things had changed.
“We’ve unstuck the son of a
bitch and we’re back on the highway,” he said.
HUFFINGTON
11.04.12
OBAMA STOPS
THE BLEEDING
Ahead of the second presidential
debate, a Romney campaign aide
told me that they had built a replica of the set on which Romney and
Obama would face off. This is something both Republicans and Democrats have done for many presidential cycles. An official involved in
Obama’s debate prep, told me they
did the same this year, as they had in
2008, and said that Democrats have
done this going back to Bill Clinton’s
first campaign in 1992.
Obama and
Romney
shake hands
at the third
and final
presidential
debate in
Boca Raton,
Florida.