Final Debate Tonight

Tonight is the third and final debate between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. The subject of the debate is Foreign Policy and I would imagine that the events in Libya a little over a month ago will dominate the discussion.

I would expect significantly lower ratings for this debate rather than the first two.

First, anyone looking for reassurance in their leanings or curious about a candidate they didn't know that well should have been answered in the first two debates.

Second, Foreign Policy almost always rates lower in issues than economic issues so a number of people will by-pass as they are not interested in the subject matter of the debate.

Third, competition. This debate happens to be going up against both Monday Night Football (Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears) and Game 7 of the NLCS (St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants). With two fairly big sporting events to chose from, a number of people will turn elsewhere on the tube tonight.

Still, there should be some fireworks tonight as Mr. Obama is still trying to fully right the ship after the first debate. He staunched the bleeding in the second debate, but Mr. Romney seems to still have the momentum. Ideally, Mr. Obama needs a knock down as hard as the one he recieved in the first debate. Mr. Romney, on the other hand, just needs to land a few hard blows and not take too many (i.e. another draw) and he should keep himself in good position.

Even though I have no intention of actually watching the debate, I'll still look things over and try to do some sort of post-mortem.