Spain got the worst of it Wednesday night, during the first debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, but Romney also managed to get in a shot at China, asserting that he would, “crack down on China, if and when they cheat.”
Governor Romney probably doesn’t care, but it turns out there were a lot of people in China watching the debate, lighting up social media with their real time reactions.
Lily Kuo, a reporter for Quartz, a new global business news site sponsored by The Atlantic, discusses the thousands of real-time reactions to the style and substance of the candidates and the debate forum itself.