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Yesterday’s presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney took place on TV as much as it did on social media.

For every retort, claim and zinger, millions on social media junkies were standing at the ready with a (hopefully) witty reply or (occasionally) sharp reflection.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was one of those, and she apparently didn’t think too highly of Romney’s performance in the second debate. In fact, she tweeted, he seemed to have spent all of his energy and good fortune the first time around. She said it, well, a little more plainly than that, though.

Take it away, Eleanor:

Mitt shot his whole wad in the first debate.

— Eleanor H. Norton (@EleanorNorton) October 17, 2012

Of course, there is another, more antiquated way to take this: way back when, a wad was a piece of paper loaded into the muzzle of a gun along with the charge and projectile. Sometimes a hasty shooter would fire the gun with nothing but the wad in it, hence the phrase—which means he wasted a shot.

She tweets, we report and you decide.

UPDATE, 11:45 a.m.: Norton has deleted this tweet, along with many others. The Sunlight Foundation has a handy tool to see the deleted record in full.

UPDATE, 12:45 p.m.: Norton spokesman Scott McCrary tells us that the D.C. delegate made the same mistake many people who run multiple Twitter accounts do: she posted to the wrong one. “It was her tweeting last night. We had to delete them this morning because they were accidentally posted to her official House Twitter account, instead of her campaign account,” he said. But is there a second account? Not that we can see. The Twitter account Norton has listed on her campaign website is the same as the one on her official House website.