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I love boxing analogies as they relate to politics.<\/p>\n

Here is my take on last night\u2019s Round Two of the Barack Obama-Mitt Romney series of fights.<\/p>\n

If it had gone on another, oh, 10 minutes, moderator Candy Crowley might have had to stop the contest on a technical knockout. The Republican challenger, Romney, had more or less held his own for most of the 90-minute bout. Then came a couple of key moments that provided the president the opening he needed to finish strong.<\/p>\n

Romney got a question about whether women should be paid equally with men when they do the same job as their male counterparts. He talked at some length about how as governor of Massachusetts he sought female applicants for staff jobs. He didn\u2019t deal directly with the question: Do you support pay equity? Obama teed that one up. He talked about his signing of the Lillie Ledbetter Act, which mandates equal pay for equal work. Do you think undecided female voters took note of that? Of course they did.<\/p>\n

Then Romney stepped in it once again on Libya. He accused the president of playing politics with the tragic attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. He said it took Obama two weeks to declare that it was an act of terror. Wrong. Crowley corrected Romney, noting that Obama made that declaration the very next day at the White House. Obama then turned to Romney and said it was \u201coffensive\u201d to assume that \u201canyone on my time\u201d would play politics with such a tragedy. \u201cThat\u2019s not what I do as president. That\u2019s not what I do as commander in chief,\u201d Obama said while glaring at the pretender, er, contender.<\/p>\n

And then Obama finished with his sole reference to Romney\u2019s infamous \u201c47-percent\u201d remark, made in the spring during a fundraiser in Florida. You remember that, right? Romney said 47 percent of voters are dependent on government, they\u2019re \u201cvictims\u201d and those are the folks who\u2019ll back Obama\u2019s re-election no matter what Romney says or does. Obama unloaded a flurry of rhetorical punches, declaring that many of those among the 47 percent are students trying to obtain student loans, \u201cheroes\u201d returning from the battlefield in search of starting new lives as civilians, people who depend on Social Security or Medicare.<\/p>\n

I have to agree with the likes of George Will and Chris Matthews \u2013 one conservative pundit, one liberal \u2013 who said this presidential debate was the best they\u2019d ever seen. <\/p>\n

I am sure my Republican friends will take serious issue with me on this blog post. They\u2019ll say the president\u2019s economic record stinks. They\u2019ll accuse him of covering up what happened in Benghazi. Fine. We\u2019ll still be friends \u2026 I hope.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait for the bell to ring for Round Three next week. <\/p>\n\n

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