Romney was generic, and spoke in generalities, which helped to highlight Romney's foreign policy weakness. For the first hour of the debate he basically parroted, or agreed with everything President Obama proposed. He left a number of his positions at the door, many of which he openly contradicted. He wasn't as confident in this debate, and spent as much time as he could either agreeing with the President, or rambling about some abstract basic foreign policy principal. He was like a man trapped in the rapids, just trying to stay afloat until the end.
The fact that Romney abandon his long pronounced foreign policy positions comes as no surprise. He continued to play the politically expedient lump of clay, molding himself into what he thinks the American people want to hear. The problem is he has 6 years of running for President that tells a very different story. When you have to consistently defend a multitude of positions over that long a period of time, the video tape speaks for itself. It smacks at Romney's ethically bankrupt political theory to do, or say, whatever it takes to get the White House. Say whatever, and let the fact checkers fight it out. A shrewd political calculation that plays to our nations army of low information voters who take Romney at his word. The proof of this is how tight the race has become since the first debate. Obama's first effort allowed Romney back in the game, when he was just about D.O.A..
However, despite the media frenzy that has the "popular vote" in a dead heat. In the "electoral vote" where it counts, Obama's lead has diminished, but not enough to turn the tide. Romney has always had a much more difficult path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win, and nothing at this point, has allowed him to inflict enough damage to change that. If the election was held today Obama would win. I don't see anything happening in the next 2 weeks to change that outcome.
