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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Obama admits debate fumble: 'I had a bad night,'
(CNN) - President Barack Obama
conceded in an interview Wednesday his first faceoff with Mitt Romney
last week in Denver was a "bad night" for him, but maintained his
performance at the debate didn't alter the state of the presidential
race.
"Gov. Romney had a good night," Obama said in a sit down with ABC News. "I had a bad night.""It's not the first time I've had a bad night," he continued.Following last week's matchup in Denver, most observers named Romney
the clear winner, saying Obama seemed unenthusiastic.
Many of Obama's
supporters wondered why he didn't raise some contentious campaign
issues, including Romney's remarks on the 47% of Americans reliant on
government support, or his time at Bain Capital, the private equity firm
he co-founded.
Obama said in Wednesday's interview those omissions from the first debate would not be game changers come November."What's important is the fundamentals of what this race is about
haven't changed," Obama said. "Gov. Romney went to a lot of trouble to
try to hide what his positions are."
"One thing, maybe this is because I played a lot of sports when I was
a kid and still do, if you have a bad game, you just move on," the
president continued. "You look forward to the next one. And it makes you
that much more determined. The difference between this and sports is
that the stakes are so high."
One of those high stakes is abortion, which became an issue on the
campaign trail Wednesday after Romney said in an interview with the Des
Moines Register he was not aware of any abortion legislation that would
become part of his presidential agenda.
Obama said that remark was "another example of Gov. Romney hiding positions he's been campaigning on for a year and a half.""He thinks that it is appropriate for politicians to inject
themselves into those decisions," Obama said of Romney's position on
abortion.
During the primary campaign, Romney maintained he would support
efforts to remove funding for Planned Parenthood, a women's health
clinic that provides abortion services. Several House Republicans have
introduced legislation that would strip funding from the group.
On Wednesday, Romney said he would support removing the group's
funding through the federal budget, which must be passed by Congress.
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