If you're criteria about whether or not Barack Obama "won" last night's town hall debate was based on him setting a clear agenda for the next four years — the same criteria as Tom Friedman from the New York Times' — then the president fell short of that goal.
In terms of combating why Mitt Romney's prescribed agenda is a dangerous one for the country, Obama delivered an extremely high-testosterone encounter with the former Massachusetts governor.
Throughout the past two weeks, you can tell who "won" these debates by checking the following day to see which side is criticizing the moderator. This morning, conservatives blasted CNN's Candy Crowley, mainly because President Obama called the killing of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens a terrorist act:
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.