The dinosaur from PBS, Jim Lehrer, was terrible last night, and allowed Obama to take advantage of him in the 1st presidential election, while trying to cut off Mitt Romney at every opportunity.

Obama was allowed to speak for 42 minutes 40 seconds, which works out to be 52.7 percent of the total debate time available to the candidates.
Romney only spoke for 38 minutes and 14 seconds, which works out to be 47.3 percent of the total debate time available to the candidates.

So Obama was allowed to steal an additional 4 minutes of talking time, while Jim Lehrer did nothing to try and curb Obama’s “ME time”, and yet Obama still completely failed, even with more time to try and explain himself.

It got to a point Lehrer lost control of the debate and couldn’t get Obama to stop talking.
Romney realized that he will have to stop Obama’s incoherent rambling himself, and started nicely interrupting Obama when his time had expired, and we are very glad that he did so! SOMEBODY has to keep Obama in line, and it wasn’t going to be Jim Lehrer.

The president receives more than 4 minutes more face time than Romney during the CBS debate, or a 12 percent greater amount than the GOP nominee

In a debate in which both candidates were supposed to receive equal speaking time, President Barack Obama was given 12 percent more airtime Wednesday evening at the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado.

Obama spoke for 42 minutes and 40 seconds or 52.7 percent of the candidate-allotted speaking time.

And while Romney at times appeared to interrupt moderator Jim Lehrer, perhaps he did so for good reason.

A Smart Politics analysis finds that Mitt Romney spoke for 38 minutes and 14 seconds, or 47.3 percent of the candidate-allotted speaking time – a full four minutes and 26 seconds less than Barack Obama.

During the Republican primary debates, Romney frequently was given the most speaking time – doing so in 11 of the last 16 such debates held over the last five months of the campaign.

With largely negative reviews coming in grading his performance, the president seemingly did not benefit from the extra stage time he received Wednesday evening.

Obama gave answers of more than two minutes in length on 13 occasions, compared to just eight times for Romney.

The president spoke for more than two and a half minutes six times with Romney doing so just twice.

Lehrer, meanwhile, seemed to disappear and at times lose control of the debate – speaking significantly less than debate moderators from the GOP primaries this cycle.

Lehrer spoke for just 8 minutes and 10 seconds, or 9 percent of the total time between himself and the two nominees.

During the GOP presidential primary debates, moderators spoke for an average of twice that amount (19.8 percent) ranging from a high of 27 percent to a low of 14 percent.

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