Report: Obama Thought He Won Debate, Didn't Want to Practice
Reportedly took a last-minute trip to the Hoover Dam and went to visit volunteers instead of preparing for debates
When President Barack Obama stepped off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him.
But what nobody knew, until now, was that Obama believed he had actually won.
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Daily Mail is a kind of a miserable failure at useful information aggregation, so I take this story with a grain of salt. But I'm shallow enough to admit that honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama really were that self-absorbed.