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| US Presidential debate: Mitt Romney wants a repeat, Barack Obama a reversal
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-October-2012
11:46:3 AM |
| Mitt Romney would love another debate like the last one. President Barack Obama most certainly would not.
Twenty-one days before Election Day, Debate Two comes as both candidates seek to break out of a neck-and-neck national race with the type of debate performance and vision that could help sway a narrow band of undecided voters in a handful of crucial states.
Mr Romney needs to reinforce his case that he's an agent of change and raise further doubts about Mr Obama's economic tenure in the face of some positive signs of recovery. Obama must reverse the corrosive story line ignited by his lame performance in the first debate and make a convincing case for four more years of his presidency
The President has promised not to be the disengaged Mr Obama of Debate One. Yet he won't be the caffeinated, grinning, eyes-to-the-sky Joe Biden of last Thursday's Vice Presidential faceoff, either. Mr Obama's approach is more likely to resemble the methodical, persistent and affable debating style of Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate.
Still, Mr Obama says he was too polite in the first debate. His aides promise a more aggressive president this time.
And Mr Romney needs to sustain the apparent connection he made with many voters in his last encounter with the President, without becoming defensive in the face of Mr Obama's more assertive stance.
It won't be easy for either.
The debate will be conducted as a town hall meeting, with the candidates fielding questions from audience members selected by the Gallup polling group for their undecided views. An aggressive approach usually doesn't work in such a format, where candidates need to connect with the questioners first before turning on their opponents.
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