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"FacebookPinterestGetty Images\n\nThe Romney campaign has already hinted that one tack he'll employ at tomorrow night's debate is calling President Obama a liar. That strikes me as pretty standard, and probably not unwise in the abstract, since undermining the credibility of your opponent's attacks is important. But there are two problems with this. One is that the \"liar, liar\" strategy needed to get going a long time ago, if it was going to happen at all. (It would also help to have the facts clearly on his side.) The second is this: the attacks from Obama that the Romney campaign says are lies aren't really the storylines that are defining the race. In other words, Romney is bothering to make a fuss about \"lying\" without undermining the most damaging charges against him. And by omission, you might say, he's even drawing more attention to them.\n\nCheck out this memo, released today by the Romney campaign, headed, in all caps, \"DEBATE PREVIEW: OBAMA'S TOP-FIVE FAVORITE LIES &amp;amp; EXAGGERATIONS.\" The fouls he cites are attacks related to middle-class tas, outsourcing, and Medicare, as well as Obama's characterization of his own deficit-reduction plan and record on debt. Notice anything missing? Yeah: the \"47 percent\" remarks, and the allegation that Romney makes liberal use of tax shelters. Ok, true, it's hard to refute secret video, or explain tax returns you won't release. But the fact remains that Election Day is a month away and Romney still\u2014still\u2014does not have answers for his most glaring problems. Heading into the debate, it'd probably be handy to have some, because voters, it turns out, are still recoiling.\n\n\"I don't know too much about Romney,\" a dissatisfied voter in crucial Ohio told The Atlantic's Molly Ball the other day. \"But if he's for the rich to get richer, I'm not for that.\"\n\n Read more on Death Race 2012\n\nHunger Reads: A Deeper Look At Mitt As Governor Animal Collective Band Member on Life In DC\n\nToday's Political Firestorm: Preemptive Conclusions Drawn From a Debate That Has Not Happened Yet\n\nTrail Gear: Jon Swaine's Gluten-Free Food\n\nHunger Reads: Why Election Polls Make No Sense and What Billionaires Have Against Obama\n\n Follow Reid Cherlin on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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