There will be no changes to the upcoming presidential debates despite the widespread outcry about the format and moderator of the first clash that seemed to muzzle President Obama while giving Mitt Romney a massive political bounce.

If anything, said Michael McCurry, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the candidates will be urged to push even deeper into the weeds on policy even if that means a continued unstructured back-and-forth Lincoln-Douglas style of debate, McCurry told Secrets. “More free-flowing,” is how he described it.