Moderator Jim Lehrer, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama participate in the first presidential debate at the University of Denver on Oct. 3, 2012.
The first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama in Denver Wednesday night was the most tweeted event in U.S. political history, according to Twitter. The great majority of those tweets appeared to be not so kind to Obama, whom most polls agreeing he badly lost this round. According to a CNN poll, 67 percent of debate watchers questioned believed Romney clearly won the debate, reportedly the highest number in the history of that poll.
Both liberal and conservative commentators took to Twitter with snark and sass to explain why:
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