AXELROD FLASHES THE BARACK SIGNAL: “Mr Axelrod, speaking on a campaign conference call, made an appeal to reporters to make the points that Obama himself had failed to make in the debate,” the London Daily Mail reports.

Reuters, as spotted by Rob Long at Ricochet, is happy to oblige, running a piece titled, “For Obama, words not said in debate spoke the loudest,” and hitting all the talking points that Obama missed.

But still, Reuters’ in-house artist, who was at the University of Denver and illustrating the debate LeRoy Neiman-style, conceded the extent of the damage Romney inflicted:

(Photo background here, for those who have forgotten the legendary photojournalism career of Adnan Hajj.)