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Obama badly botched things last night. But Obama and his team hopes to salvage something from the wreckage: They believe Romney is now on record evading the implications of his own policies in a way that will expose him to tougher scrutiny in the days ahead, giving them more ammo to sow doubts about the true priorities driving Romney’s policies and whose interests they would really advance and protect. The problem for the Obama team is that Romney proved last night that he is capable of concealing the true nature of his agenda quite brilliantly. The pressure is on the Obama campaign to expose it.