Debating the debate: 2 partisans give their take

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Even longtime Republican insider Tom Pauken admitted Tuesday to being a bit let down by his party's presidential nominee's performance in the third and final matchup with Democrat Barack Obama.

"Quite frankly, I was a little disappointed in Mitt Romney," Pauken, a former congressional candidate and one-time aide to Ronald Reagan said on KXAN News Today. "I thought there were real opportunities to be more critical of the failed Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton foreign policy."

Pauken once again was in the studio with Democratic operative Jason Stanford for the post-debate debate in the KXAN studio. Stanford was far more gleeful in his own assessment after overnight polls showed that Obama got the best of the foreign policy debate.

"The fact is, he had a bad day," Stanford said of Romney. "(Obama) skewered Mitt Romney."

Neither analyst would say whether the final matchup would move the few remaining undecided voters between now and Nov. 6, when the 2012 election will be decided.