Thanks to President Obama’s “U-turn,” performance, Democrats “will be thrilled with the president’s performance,” Rachel Maddow said moments after tonight’s debate, summing up the consensus from the msnbc panel.
Maddow also called it “the best debate of Barack Obama’s career as a national politician.”
The panel agreed President Obama bounced back from his passive, “too polite” approach of two weeks ago and delivered a much more aggressive, engaged performance.
Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz both said the biggest moment of the night came when Romney fumbled by claiming that Obama hadn’t used the phrase “act of terror” when addressing the attack on U.S. ambassadors in Libya, which he had.
Matthews said it “punched [Romney] hard” when moderator Candy Crowley immediately pointed out the error and Obama simply told him to “get the transcript.”








