Asia Poole

      This debate was intended to clear up both sides Foreign Policy plans. Once the debate started it was clear that they declared it a National Economy debate. The question is who started the change in conversation? Well, that would be Romney. The, even more than the first debate, flustered Governor consistently contradicted himself and was corrected be fact-checkers around the world. For instance, Romney said "Muslim nations need to help themselves... but we need to help their leaders" and "We can't kill our way out of a situation... but we will get them" and, my personal favorite, "I have 5 simple steps to bring in more jobs...(before this night) I have a 59-point plan to raise the amount of jobs." With Romney being all over the place, he dug his on grave in this debate. Not to mention his lack of question answering. America just wants the straight to the point answer to their questions, and Romney just could not deliver. This is how we continuously ended up back on the topic of the Economy. This also further proved that he may not actually have any plans for any issue in America. He just kept hitching along on what President Obama said, then finishing his rant with a non-factual statement about what Obama has done wrong. Romney left me with one huge question, "WHAT WILL YOU DO!?!?", and that pertains to every topic.

       President Barack Obama came a long way from his first debate. At first he was entirely passive, then he became incredibly aggressive, and in this last debate everything seemed just right. He was enough of both that people could just focus on what was being said rather than how it was being said. He, too, said a few key things in this debate that could either make or break his campaign. He placed a international stamp on our alliance with Israel and a choke-hold on Iran. "Israel is our greatest ally in the region, we will stick by them if [they remain in tact]" "As long as I'm President of the United States, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon." This definite statements about foreign policy (the little time they stayed on the topic) could have done serious damage to the campaign. He can lose, or gain, voters.

       I believe it is clear that Obama, for the third time, won the debate. The difference is that now we don't just have to base it on information alone, because he won all around. The most popular quotes of the night had to be:

  "Romney: Navy has fewer ships than 1917. Obama: We have fewer horses, bayonets too."

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  "Romney, you keep on trying to airbrush history." - Obama