Presidential Debate Drinking Game

1 Drink Events

• Romney cites the "six studies" that have signed off on his tax plan.
• Unlike the last time around, Obama says the number 47.
• A question is asked about marriage equality or gay rights.
• The audience boos either candidate.
• Either candidate praises a member of the other party.
• A questioner asks about the Obama administration's response to the attack in Libya.
• Obama brings up the Massachusetts health care law.
• Anybody says the word "Bain." Take an extra drink or two if it sounds a bit more like "Bane."
• Housing or Fed policy is discussed by either candidate.
• Stimulus-funded "green jobs" and windmills supposedly made in China are derided by Romney.
• Either candidate accuses the other of making Medicare unsustainable for people under age 55.
• Either candidate directly panders to the hometown of a questioner.
• Obama accuses Romney of changing his policies mid-debate.
• Either candidate hassles the moderator over how much time they've been given to speak.

2 Drink Events

• Anyone says "malarkey."
• An actual unemployed person gets to ask either candidate a question.
• Big Bird is mentioned in a question.
• The camera pans to a woman or member of an ethnic group that a candidate is currently pandering to.
• A question is asked about immigration policy at a presidential debate.
• Taking the lead from Vice President Joe Biden, Obama actually defends the stimulus.
• A questioner starts crying, mid-question.
• As he is wont to do, Romney attempts to guess the age and ethnicity of a questioner.
• Several minutes into a question, an audience member has to be reminded to ask a question, not make a statement.
• Obama channels Biden and laughs through a response from Romney.
• A questioner asks the candidates about unmanned drone policy.
• Moderator Candy Crowley cuts off a questioner to ask her own, vaguely related, question.
• A questioner asks either candidate about the euro crisis. 

3 Drink, Red Alarm Events

• Obama visibly falls asleep at his podium.
• To keep from falling asleep, Obama appears on stage with a nicotine patch stapled to his forehead.
• Romney leaves the stage half way through the debate, figuring he may as well go out on top.
• Obama sends in Biden to debate Romney in his place.
• To level the playing field, Romney sings the answer to an audience question on the economy.
• Obama congratulates his fellow Nobel Peace Prize winners: everyone living within theEuropean Union.
• From The National Journal