2:47 pm ET

Bob Shrum and I discussed the Obama/Romney face-offs with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. Here are some of the points I made:

If I was going to give the edge to one of them it’d be the President, simply because, between his debates with then-Senator Clinton and his debates against John McCain, he’s not going to have that hard-swallow moment when he’s out there dealing with the pressure.

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The President is well aware of everything Mitt Romney is going to try to say and if Mitt Romney succeeds in getting off a critique of the President — that he’s been a failure or that he doesn’t tell the truth — you can bet that the President is going to have a pretty good comeback. Because almost every accusation that Mitt Romney can make, the President can make a counter accusation on the same point. It’s that moment, if Romney pulls it off, I am confident the President will come back. Can Romney then respond again in an effective way? We’ve never seen him do that.

You can watch the whole segment above.