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That is the last debate, and as it was on foreign policy, the temperature was a bit cooler being at some remove from the hot-button social topics. Obama did not lapse into his first-debate passivity but held his ground tough. The problem remains, though, that he already allowed Romney to show himself as a viable alternative, and as much as Obama tried to fact-check him, he did not succeed in coloring Romeny as the right-wing extemist that he was happy to show himself as during the Republican primaries (Mr. Severe Conservative!). Romney has been able to play as a moderate to the general American population in these debates and in these last weeks. In short, this is going to be a scary election day. God, the idea of getting another Scalia or Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court is enough to break your liberal heart.
That is the last debate, and as it was on foreign policy, the temperature was a bit cooler being at some remove from the hot-button social topics. Obama did not lapse into his first-debate passivity but held his ground tough. The problem remains, though, that he already allowed Romney to show himself as a viable alternative, and as much as Obama tried to fact-check him, he did not succeed in coloring Romeny as the right-wing extemist that he was happy to show himself as during the Republican primaries (Mr. Severe Conservative!). Romney has been able to play as a moderate to the general American population in these debates and in these last weeks. In short, this is going to be a scary election day. God, the idea of getting another Scalia or Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court is enough to break your liberal heart.
