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Romneyโ€™s Debate Tactic

Everybodyโ€™s gotta have a gimmick.ย  If Romney won that debate โ€“ and Iโ€™m just saying if โ€“ was there a special technique he used?

Did you ever hear of the Gish Gallop?

Apparently, it has 2 requirements:

1ย  what he says is designed to appeal to, and deceive, precisely those people who most need straight information.

2ย  the technique is to overwhelm oneโ€™s opponent with sheer volume of material, not necessarily true, acting as if itโ€™s fact.

Romney appeared to contradict his own major policy ideas from the past months, leaving Obama unable to debate substance.ย  It might include a bit of facts, and then it takes so long to reply to that itโ€™s pretty impossible to cover the subterfuge Romney threw.ย  A known debate technique.ย  Daily Kos story here.

Carole