Obama-Romney Presidential Debate: Live Chat
Join Patch sites across Florida for a live chat during the Oct. 16 presidential debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
- By Charles Schelle
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- October 16, 2012
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Join Patch sites across Florida, including a special guest, for a live chat during the Tuesday, Oct. 16, presidential debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
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Here's what you need to know about the Romney and Obama debate:
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
TV Channels Broadcasting Live: FOX (WTVT), NBC (WFLA), CBS (WTSP), ABC (WWSB-Sarasota, WFTS-Tampa), PBS (WUSF, WEDU), CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CSPAN
Live Streaming Online: YouTube's Election Hub, AOL
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A live stream of the debate will also be available with this story as well to be your one-stop shop for watching and chatting.
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Joseph Robert
9:46 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
VOTE EARLY!! Don't let Republican leaders suppress your right to vote!
Watch Romney explain his flip-flopping positions on the issues. 2 million views!
More than 2 million views in past week!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgfzknYd20&feature=plcp
Romney-Ryan: We believe in LYING to America!
EL JOHNSON
11:56 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Mark Peterson, Are you afraid that the undecided will open their eyes and vote for ROMNEY? You are one arrogant DEMOCRAT like OBAMA hiding behind BILL CLINTONS back. Why does Obama needs Clinton to campaign with him? Obama thinks that appearances Of Clinton & Bruce Springsteen will help him the votes he needed in critical swing states & undecided. He keeps hiding behind Clinton’s back to promote him win the 2012 election. Why can’t he be a man and campaign without calling some American heavyweights to lend him a hand on the campaign trail? It’s no secret that Obama and Clinton have a quasi-friendship. It’s a well-known fact that the two men hate each other, so why beg Clinton? He must be really really desperate to beg Clinton last September 24, 2011 to play golf with him in spite of them not liking each other. Obama has not even told the American people his vision for the next four years? All he can do is criticized Romney’s vision.
Mike Chubre
2:02 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The people of the state of Ohio need to know that the republicans are a BIG part of the prescription drug abuse problem we have . Florida is one of the worst states for prescription drug abuse . The republicans in Florida fought for over 7 years against the database . First they claimed privacy issues and when that did not fly, they went on to budget issues . Under severe pressure they passed a watered down version of a database . The doctors are not required to report the controlled substance scripts they write . The drug dealers love this . They can go to 10 doctors a day and get as many scripts as they want . They pay cash and there is no paper trail . This country needs a national prescription drug database , not just state by by state . Just like we have a national drivers license database . In Florida the republicans would only pass the watered down database if the tax payers did not have to pay for it . They figure the cost to be 1 million a year to keep the database on line , so do the math . I dont believe anyone other than the republicans would disagree to pay for it. The money was never the issue anyway . The issue is that the republicans protect the profits the drug companies and doctors make . For this one reason alone I would never vote for a republican . Please vote for Obama in 201
Vanessa Long
7:01 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Love Romney! So glad we finally have a Candidate that is a true leader & businessman! I don't know if many people know that he never took his pay for being Governor of MA.
He probably won't take his salary when he becomes President either! I'm sure Ann won't be wasting our money on a huge entourage like Michelle did
He truly wants to fix our economy. He doesn't need the money or the power from being President. He already has both! GO MITT GO!
Harborite
7:34 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Vanessa, the polls show that Mitt Romney is so unliked in Massachusetts that he is no longer even contesting the state. Mitt Romney will lose Massachusetts in a landslide to Pres. Obama because he is an uncaring out of touch flip flopper whose experience as a vulture capitalist showed that he valued profits and his millionaire investor friends more than the middle class working people whose jobs he sent overseas. We should trust the unfavorable opinion that the people of Massachusetts have toward Mitt Romney. These are the people who know him the best and this is the reason why Mitt Romney was only a one term governor.
Lynda
7:48 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Most people in Massachusetts thought that one term was enough for Gov. Romney. Apparently so did he since he didn't run for a second term. So you might say what Massachusetts got from Gov. Romney was worth exactly what it paid him: $1.00. There are pitfalls to hiring a businessperson to govern. Massachusetts found out what those pitfalls are. People are working very hard all over this country to ensure Gov. Romney is not elected so he would do to the country what Bain did to all those companies it destroyed while paying him millions.
Jamie Robe
11:15 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I want someone in office who needs to earn my dollar. The fact that he is rich does not make him morally right for not taking pay. It is another reason to vote against him and his ultra-rich cronnies. A vote for Romney is a step backwards. Our forefathers fought so that we would have freedom to elect citizen politicians, not someone who can buy their way into office.
Linda Chion Kenney
7:39 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Looking forward to the debate, but also to seeing photos from my alma mater, Hofstra University.
Gene "Doc" Webb
7:44 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Obama would like to shift the responsibility for our current economic woes to those nasty "rich" people. Let's just take their money and spread it around, make it impossible for them to start, expand or run a business and everything will be fine.
monica
7:59 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Vanessa a true leader inspires individuals and does not try to tear them down. He has a bone to pick with our country because his father never made it to the presidency, so at all costs he wants to fulfill that legacy. He could care less about anyone except himself and his family. That's it. Obama/Biden 2012.
Gene "Doc" Webb
8:07 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Currently watching CNN debate coverage, as usual, too many gadgets, screen crawls and distractions. Check out PBS if you want the debate without all of the gizmos.
PatsFan
8:16 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I am a former Massachusetts resident, as you can tell by my handle. The Mitt Romney I remember was a moderate, pro-business Republican. He was pro-choice and worked with the Democratic Legislature to pass the first-in-the-nation health care bill (which he was proud enough of to have it included in his official portrait).
Of course this bears no resemblance at all to today's "new" Romney, who is anti-choice, anti-health care, etc. Don't trust someone who has no convictions.
Jamie Robe
11:17 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I want someone in office who needs to earn my dollar. The fact that he is rich does not make him morally right for not taking pay. It is another reason to vote against him and his ultra-rich cronnies. A vote for Romney is a step backwards. Our forefathers fought so that we would have freedom to elect citizen politicians, not someone who can buy their way into office.
PatsFan
8:19 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
BTW, let's see if President Obama can get Romney to admit how he plans a big tax cut for all without increasing the deficit... Remember how Romney and Ryan keep talking about "tightening loopholes" in the tax code? Say goodbye to your mortgage interest deduction folks, as well as your tax-free health insurance contribution from your employer, child care credit, earned income credit...
Harborite
8:39 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
PatsFan, You are absolutely right. I also used to live in Massachusetts and I remember when Mitt Romney was pro choice, pro gay rights, and believed in universal health care. He even believed in gun control and supported an assault weapons ban. Romney is a man that can't be trusted. He will say anything to get elected.
Charles Schelle
8:35 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Rider
10:27 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Mitt Romney, the "Charlie Crist" of Massachusetts.....!!!
Harborite
10:54 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
President Obama won this debate by a mile. It didn't even look like Romney showed up. Romney was vague in most of his answers and he stumbled on nearly every question. Pres. Obama was articulate and successfully answered the audiences' questions about the budget, taxes, education, and women's health care. Pres. Obama is back and all the post debate commentators are saying the same thing.
EL JOHNSON
12:02 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Hey Joe C., Have you done your FACT CHECK? You're obviously one of those ARROGANT DEMOCRATS. Read the ff >>>>>>
Obama and his infamous strategist David Axelrod understand how to play political hardball, the best it’s ever been played. Team Obama has decided to distract America’s voters by condemning Mitt Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns. It’s the perfect cover. Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense. Just keep attacking Mitt and blaming him for secrecy and evasion, while accusing him of having a scandal that doesn’t exist. Then ask followers like Senator Harry Reid to chase the lead. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader appears to now be making up stories out of thin air, about tax returns he knows nothing about. It’s a cynical, brilliant, and vicious strategy. Make Romney defend, so he can’t attack the real Obama scandal.
This is classic Axelrod. Obama has won several elections in his career by slandering his opponents and leaking sealed documents. Not only do these insinuations and leaks ruin the credibility and reputation of Obama’s opponents, they keep them on the defensive and off Obama’s trail of sealed documents.
Jean Wilson
1:36 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
I thought the President nailed it tonight. He definitely won the debate.
Steve
6:57 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Pres. Obama easily won the debate last night. Mitt Romney could not explain how he would balance his budget with no tax increases while continuing the Bush tax cuts for the rich. The more that you listen to Romney, the more that he looks like a used car salesman who will say anything to make a sale.
Gene "Doc" Webb
8:41 am on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Obama definitly did better. Romney needs to get to the detail and back off a little.
Watts
1:31 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Even watching the Fox post debate banter, nobody was in denial about Obama's victory, except the ever delusional Sean Shammity.
Fact checking the debate and Romney's pants are on fire (and we are not even talking about the most obvious flub on stage regarding Libya)...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/oct/16/fact-checking-town-hall-debate/