Presidential Debate - Oct. 16
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4:26 p.m. ET | Clinton Backs Obama, Perot Endorses Romney as Candidates Set to Debate: Tune in to the campaign Tuesday, and you might think you've gone back in time to 1992. Yes, that's former President Bill Clinton arguing about taxes. And Ross Perot is there, too. The homage to yesteryear comes as President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to meet for their second debate Tuesday night.
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4:27 p.m. ET | President Barack Obama greets supporters Oct. 16, 2012 as he arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Obama was headed to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York for the second presidential debate. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/GettyImages.
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4:29 p.m. ET | Check out our interactive debate guide: "Candidates' Positions on Your Health Care." Use this chart to compare and contrast the views of the candidates. Click an issue or candidate name to show or hide the details.
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Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport and USA Today’s Susan Page explain how Gallup selects the town hall participants who will ask questions in tonight’s second presidential debate. Read it here.
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The DNC has put up a website attacking Mitt Romney’s tax plan, in a creative manner:
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TIME magazine’s Mark Halperin writes that the memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns states that moderator Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the town hall debate. However, Crowley has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. Read the full article here.
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Here's Romney's 1994 town hall style debate with Ted Kennedy. c-spanvideo.org/program/Massac…
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Tonight’s questions will come from undecided voters from Long Island, N.Y. Politico looks at how that will impact the content of the debate.
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A helpful glossary of debate terms from GQ. For example, “Reform: Code for budget cuts." "Revenue: Code for tax increases.”
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Romney’s tax deferral strategies critiqued by Rolling Stone writer Tim Dickinson.
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National Journal’s wonky drinking game for round two of the presidential debates:
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Al Jazeera asks, “How are campaigns using personal online data to win the presidential race?” -- otherwise known as datamining.
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How many phones, volunteers and feet of cable does it take to pull off tonight’s debate? Basically, a lot. Hofstra University counted it all up: www.hofstra.edu
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And another more famous 1992 photo from the same debate
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The New York Times: “Obama’s Prep Session Goal: Don’t Repeat Mistakes of Last Debate.”
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President Obama’s latest tweet:
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RT if you agree: If we can’t trust Romney to tell the truth on the campaign trail, we can't trust him in the Oval Office.
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Mitt Romney’s latest tweet:
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.@BarackObama’s presided over record debt & the nation’s first trillion-dollar deficits. http://mi.tt/SYnzX9 #CantAfford4More
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Since 2000, Rob Portman has stood in for Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, John Edwards and Barack Obama during Republican debate prep sessions. Need a refresher on Portman’s style? Watch his speech at this year’s Republican National Convention here.
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@ZooeyDeschanel: Tonight’s episode of #newgirl will be a presidential debate. It’s going to be zany and hilarious and much longer than a normal episode.
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How high are the stakes tonight? They “cannot be overstated,” says the Atlantic Wire.
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Student helpers working under the supervision of Commission on Presidential Debate personnel and broadcast technicians put the final touches on the debate stage in the David Mack Center at Hofstra University, site of the second presidential debate of the 2012 fall campaign season. Candy Crowley, CNN's chief political correspondent will be moderating the town hall style debate. Photo Courtesy of Hofstra University.
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Throughout the night we’ll be posting tidbits from NewsHour partner Face the Facts. Here’s one on government spending, which will surely be a topic at tonight’s debate: “As of September 2012, the federal government’s outstanding debt surpassed $16 trillion. Who are the nation’s creditors?” Find the answer here.
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“Big Bird” and “SNL” are among the top four search terms from the past week related to each of the presidential candidates, according to Google’s Politics & Election data. lh3.googleusercontent.com
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NewsHour regular and New York Times columnist David Brooks: “Primary campaigns are won by the candidate who can most convincingly champion the party’s agenda, but general election campaigns are won by the candidate who can most plausibly fix the political system.”
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Remember “Mortal Kombat”? Slate pits Rep. Paul Ryan against Vice President Biden in “Political Kombat.”
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E.J. Dionne in The Washington Post: “Romney’s is a fairly simple recipe: Look empathetic and don’t say anything dumb. Obama has to turn in a performance that gives his spinners and supporters positive things to say.”
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Here’s the Obama for America Ad referenced during Tuesday evening’s NewsHour: “President Clinton Explains Mitt Romney's $5 Trillion Tax Cut”:
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“Presidential campaigns are all about the future,” NewsHour political analyst Mark Shields said, adding of Mr. Obama: “He has to define the future.”
“What are you going to do about my life?” --- these are the types of questions that will be asked, according to Mark Shields.
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