Mr. Obama's advisers were so off balance that they did not show up in the media filing center for the traditional post-debate spin until long after the Republicans.
THE first year it was simply a matter of getting by: purchasing Christmas presents for the children, answering queries from the F.B.I. and the news media, filing reams of paperwork.
When HuffPost approached Lewandowski on Monday in the media filing center before the first presidential debate, he said he had a "contractual obligation" with CNN that required the network's permission before giving interviews.
"These guys are not going to be able to run away from their records," Gibbs said in an interview with CNN outside the media filing center on the St . Anselmcampus.
It's a question on the minds of nearly every resident, who know the camera crews will eventually fold up their sticks and pack up their vans, the West Florissant McDonald's will transform from an international media filing center into a trivia question.
That's because news media filing systems are usually pretty primitive.
