Under any other circumstances that distinction would be too close to call, but in this case it's the difference between debate opportunities.
He's facing a month of contests that favor Romney and only one scheduled debate, opportunities that have helped him in the past.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee have been relegated to the undercard group for the GOP debate on Nov. 10, but pollsters and poll watchers say that basing candidates' debate opportunities on just four recent surveys is a bad idea and not nearly scientific enough.
While not all attorneys thrive on full-blown debate opportunities with everyone, chances are if you are dating a lawyer, he/she will enjoy engaging in lively conversation on a variety of topics.
However, this arid, texbook debate, "equal opportunity" versus "equal outcome", misses the point: how today's unequal outcomes shape tomorrow's unequal opportunities.
It is, among other things, a debate about opportunity — or more precisely, the Internet as another name for it.
As the immediate response turned into the broader, ill-defined "Global War on Terror" -- the Pentagon even issued a GWOT medal for service outside the main theaters of battle -- that debate over opportunity costs was labeled almost unpatriotic.
British Ambassador Jonathan Allen wrote on Twitter: "The appointment has been rushed through with no hearings, debate or opportunity to find out about candidate.
Finally, given our ever-limited health care resources, it would be prudent to debate the opportunity costs of funding new (and increasingly expensive) technologies.
"We gave them hours of debate and opportunities to offer unlimited amendments," she said.
