Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future website, today, mostly praising Obama's efforts to expose Romney and get him on the defensive, but concluding with the last 3 paragraphs of this excerpt (in a point consistent, I believe, with what Michael W wrote near the current end of his "Live-Blogging the Debates" thread), first sentence below being Borosage's lead:

This was the debate that finally exposed Mitt Romney as an empty suit running a campaign that is disingenuous at its core.

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But Obama didn’t end where he started. He began the debate by ticking off an agenda for the future: promoting manufacturing, creating good schools, capturing the energy future, and asking the wealthy to pay a bit more.

Much more of this – and much bolder policies – are vital both for the country and for his re-election. Obama is vulnerable because the economy is in such lousy shape. His campaign has been weakened by its apparent strategic decision not to seek a mandate for bold policies that will work to make this economy work for working people again. Instead the president has seemed intent on trying to sell the progress we’ve made, while exposing how Romney would take the country in the wrong direction.

The President succeeded last night – as his campaign has effectively done earlier – in exposing just how empty a suit Romney is. This is the Bain candidate of, for and by the 1 percent. Romney’s plan is preposterous. But people are looking for change. Romney wants voters to decide if they want more of the same. If they vote on that question, he’ll win. Obama must make this a choice – between Romney’s wrong-headed agenda and not more of the same, but on giving him a mandate for bold reform. The president’s campaign has done a good job of exposing Romney, but has done little to demand a mandate for the change vital to our future.