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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, October 18th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, October 18th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

On Tuesday night, Obama made every effort to redeem himself

after his lawn performance in the first debate in early October.

And Governor Romney says he's got a five-point plan.

Governor Romney doesn't have a five-point plan.

He has a one-point plan.

And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules.

Hendrick Hertzberg and John Castie are here to discuss the dramas posed in this debate season

and their possible effect on the outcome at the polls on November 6th. Rick, after Tuesday night,

George Will said that he'd seen every presidential

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