The last one. Thank you, Sweet Baby Jesus. I love politics but hate debates. I won’t go into that again.

• Obviously a good night for President Obama. Any sitting President should have an advantage in the foreign-policy debate due to daily briefings and constant decision-making. But this is a particular weak spot for Governor Romney, so the gap was wider than usual. Segments of the debate felt like they were scripted by the Obama team. And I just don’t mean Obama’s parts. It wasn’t pretty for Romney.

• Romney has maintained a strategy from the start he can run for President while running away from myself. He wants the election to be a referendum of the President while keeping himself hidden in an account in the Caymans. He backed off that stance when choosing Paul Ryan for a running mate and it looked for a moment like the race would be a battle of ideologies. But returned Ryan was quickly stifled, and Romney returned to the safer course. He only went for broke in the first debate because he had no other choice. Last night he was inordinately safe and deferential to the President, hoping once again that a weak economy will lift him.

• Why did Romney change course in the final debate? There could be several reasons. •He was trying to run out the clock on a topic he’s uncomfortable with. •He thinks foreign policy won’t matter at all in this race (and perhaps he’s right). •He was told that his aggression and disrespectful tone was causing the gender gap to grow to unacceptable levels (which it has). But he’s kidding himself if he thinks that female voters are turned off by the GOP merely because of style. It’s really the content that’s the problem. •The criticism about his disrespectful attitude got to him. Romney isn’t the kind of person who wants to think of himself that way. •Or maybe just maybe, he had a bad night, like the President did during the first debate. The candidates have a travel and speaking schedule that is brutal. (And the incumbent is also running the country in the meanwhile.) I couldn’t handle a fraction of their schedule. I’d get fussy. I’d have to be put down for a nap.

• Never in my lifetime has there been a candidate for either party at the Presidential level who’s morphed and changed so frequently and so dramatically as Romney. Usually they’re a little more to the left or the right during the primaries to appeal to the base and then move to the middle. But there are strong convictions within. Romney is the Oakland of political candidates: There is no there there. For a candidate to completely change course on major issues two weeks before the election is unheard of. It’s unprecedented as well as un-Presidential.

• The Presidential debate moderator position has during this election cycle become equivalent to Oscar hosting chores–no one wants to do it but someone always will because it’s prestigious. The expectations of what can actually be accomplished in 90 minutes has to be tempered. If we don’t already know the two candidates by the time of the debates the fault lies with us.

• With two weeks to go, Obama has a clear if not huge edge. Romney won’t have much of a chance to change the game going forward, so his campaign organization will have to be superior if he’s going to win.