It was a great show that probably won Joe
Biden, the most militant and vigorous. But,
unsurprisingly, the debate between the current vice president and the
Republican, Paul Ryan, not decided anything in this campaign. If
anything, served to confirm that the Democratic Party is in need of an
emotional boost to mobilize their voters in order to win this election.
In the debate on Thursday in Danville
(Kentucky), Biden did what he could in that sense, it was pretty. But
who has to get it, really, is Barack Obama in the debate next Tuesday in New
York. The
Democratic Party had until recently all the pieces to get the win on Nov. 6:
the favorable economic trend, the proper management in the previous mandate and
the creation of an electoral majority more than enough. But
voters are deflated with the discussion of Denver, where they saw the worst
version of Obama, which lost him supporters in these four years, and now many
are wondering what to do.
For some analysts, Obama Biden taught the
way to go. Vigorous,
compelling, passionate verging on rude, showed Biden believe in his candidacy
and expressed ambition and reason enough to be reelected. Now
Obama asked to do the same, but Obama is not Biden. Moreover,
Obama is the opposite of Biden, and ask a similar transformation can be risky.
Biden has achieved at least stop the
discouragement that had been generated among Democrats. You
may also stop the fall of the Democratic nomination in the polls, which are now
essentially equal, with slight advantages for Obama in most battleground
states.
The vice president had difficulty
explaining why no more security in the diplomatic representation in Benghazi at
the time of the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador, but dominated the
scenario in most of the rest of the debate. Wisely
defended the government's economic policy and frequently exposed his rival to
the fact that the Republican nomination is not actually a viable alternative to
offer. "Stop
talking about how you help people, teach me something, show me a policy
proposal," said one of the brightest moments of the night.
Ryan did not get to be on the ropes in no
time. Although
Biden stumbled when he showed that he, as a congressman from Wisconsin, had
taken advantage of the economic stimulus plan in his own state, he managed to
bring to light some of the weak points of performance management, such as the
excessive public spending. "Not
enough nor rich enough for small businesses to raise taxes to pay for what you
spend," said running mate for Mitt Romney.
But, perhaps, the main merit of Ryan, as
the Romney himself a week earlier, was to shed the label of extremist reached
with the debate. Romney-Ryan
duo decided to sprint toward the center in the remaining days until the
election, and, so far, is succeeding in that effort. In
his recent speeches, both have shown conciliators in cases that were previously
extremely belligerent, as health care reform or abortion, and have not scored a
great distance with the government on foreign policy.
Romney said these days that keep some
aspects of health reform and Obama has no plans to legislate on abortion. In
his speech on Monday on foreign policy, respect the deadlines for withdrawal
from Afghanistan and called for intervention in Syria or an immediate attack on
Iran. In
Thursday's debate, Ryan accused the current president of weakness with Iran,
but did not mention how a Republican president would be stronger, except with
more sanctions.
This shift from the Republican to the
center makes it difficult for Obama to use what had been their main weapon so
far in this campaign: the alarm about the danger of the right. But
at the same time, you get another that has been little used so far: the
constant changes of opinion Romney. There
are many videos of the Republican candidate promising to eliminate the federal
law on abortion rights and health care reform repeal the first day of his
presidency, Obama's advisers will not have much difficulty to choose one with
which to expose their contradictions Romney.
Something is supposed to happen in the
debate next Tuesday. There
is enormous pressure on Obama to be more aggressive, to remove all possible
dirt. It's
like asking a snail quicken the pace. But
if Obama loses the second debate, the problems of today can begin to be
unsolvable.
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