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A game changer either way. jon: when the president came on and said our alliances have never been stronger, and i think he even included israel in that, i had to wonder what the truth-o-meter would have been doing if you had one on the screen at that moment. [laughter] >> right. and you knew that romney was going to point out the fact that obama as president has not been to israel, and he did that. so that, you knew he was going to land that blow. there were some surprises though. on libya i thought romney was going to be more aggressive. so romney made the tactical decision that he was going ...

I mean, it was amazing, agreed with him on syria, not sending troops. in agreed with him on iran. said we should have the catastrophic tough sanctions but he would have done it a little earlier. all of it was, again, trying to -- i think, look, the strategy was to not let obama paint him as the reckless guy who was going to take the country to war. so, he was in there with principles for peace. and agreeing with the president far more than disagreeing with him and didn't even take him on on the libya and benghazi stuff which was -- i mean, literally walked away from the question without really...

Bush-like warmonger. i would have gone after obama on libya with a baseball bat. jon: do undecided voters agree with that assessment? several snap polls taken right after the debate are giving a narrow advantage to the president. vice president joe biden approved of the president's performance as you might expect, slammed governor romney in the process saying that governor romney doesn't have what it takes to lead america on the world stage. listen. >> i didn't see anything that the governor disagreed on, and he seemed to be desperately trying to demonstrate he agreed with the president's poli...

There is a third level. you can talk about the small points or the debating point romney went large obama went very, very small. romney made a strategic decision not to go after the president on libya or syria or other areas where obama could accuse him of being a bush like war monger. i would have gone after obama on libya with a baseball bat but that's why he won elections and i haven't even contested them. he decided to stay away from that. i think that might have worked for him. what he did concentrate on is the big picture. people don't care about what our policy on syria is going to be. ...

Decision not to go after the president on libya, syria, or other areas where obama could be accusing him of being a bush-like war monger. boy have gone after obama about libya like a baseball bat. what he did concentrate on is the big picture, people don't care what our policy on syria is going to be. they care about how america is perceived in the world and how america carries itself in the world. the high point is when he devastatingly leveled the charge of obama going around on at polling tour. about a week of that. romney's response to say, to quote obama saying we dictate to other nations...