Election 2012: Second Presidental Debate, Town Hall

3rd & 7 37yd

Do we want a manager or President?

by Dahloan Hembree 10/17/2012 2:16:09 AM
can't wait until the foreign policy debate... it and i thought they weren't supposed to clap?

by mmm 10/17/2012 2:17:25 AM
wow this is getting scrappy

by nickfagan 10/17/2012 2:17:29 AM
Fact checking by the moderator, Yay!

by indyvoter 10/17/2012 2:17:29 AM
The moment we waited for

by Chris 10/17/2012 2:17:33 AM
Yep. No question. RT @lizzieohreally: and that is a moderator who knows her stuff.

by Kai Ryssdal via twitter 10/17/2012 2:17:41 AM
Dangerous question for Obama -- guns.

by Shirish Date / NPR 10/17/2012 2:17:46 AM
Candy=Win

by STEELERS 10/17/2012 2:17:49 AM
We should score these debates - with negative points for not giving direct answers. Typical of politicians to talk, talk, talk but not listen.

by deziew13 10/17/2012 2:17:58 AM
WOW NOW THAT IS JOURNALISM

by salman 10/17/2012 2:18:09 AM
The crowd likes Obama and the moderator. Romney...not so much.

by Mio199 10/17/2012 2:18:14 AM
That was a moment of courtroom drama. Obama telling Romney to proceed and Romney saying he wanted to get Obama's answer "for the record." Just two Harvard lawyers chatting.

by Frank James / NPR 10/17/2012 2:18:17 AM
A gun control question! Awesome!!!!

by Display Name:oanagody 10/17/2012 2:18:18 AM
Here's a plan for the people living in this country. This statement was made famous in a different context by you know who. The plan is "Can't we all just get along?"

by wolfmanjack 10/17/2012 2:18:31 AM
Did Obama just hit Romney with a line poking fun of Kerry? The guy who's helping him prep for the debates?

by Shirish Date / NPR 10/17/2012 2:24:50 AM
Thanks, Ryan, for the transcript and for clarification.

by Dwight 10/17/2012 2:24:53 AM
Is this almost over?

by Jane 10/17/2012 2:24:53 AM
Our own Neal Carruth pulled up the President's financial disclosure (in regards to earlier pension questions).

by Kate Myers / NPR 10/17/2012 2:24:57 AM
Obama's 2011 financial disclosure: 1.usa.gov

by nealcarruth via twitter 10/17/2012 2:25:09 AM
Next question, please.

by Lee Rachel 10/17/2012 2:25:13 AM
Obama is pandering

by Tizzy 10/17/2012 2:25:25 AM
As an European i cant understand the need for any guns in civil hands.

by Radlberg 10/17/2012 2:25:33 AM
gun control = bipartisanship... avoids question, again.

by Mio199 10/17/2012 2:25:37 AM
Ban druglords ... end prohibition, legalize and control drugs ... read "The New Jim Crow" by author Michelle Alexander!

by Alán Apurim 10/17/2012 2:25:44 AM
Obama tap dances on gun control: for 2nd Amendment, against assault weapons--but didn't endorse ban--and solving root causes of violence.

by coreydadeNPR via twitter 10/17/2012 2:25:45 AM
Both debaters behaving like Harvard boxers delivering briefs.

by Jeremy 10/17/2012 2:25:49 AM
Fire the one sided moderators, no matter what side they are on.

by wolfmanjack 10/17/2012 2:25:52 AM
@Jane: C-SPAN reported before the debate that the campaigns agreed to let it go 10 minutes longer. That would mean 10:40 pm.

by Frank James / NPR 10/17/2012 2:25:54 AM
No, seriously, @davidgura is killing it on marketplace.org

by Kai Ryssdal via twitter 10/17/2012 2:25:57 AM
Obama has won this debate tonight

by MBG 10/17/2012 2:25:57 AM
Ugh. Now Obama is buying into the traditional families = less gun violence.

by Michael 10/17/2012 2:26:05 AM
So this is the last one...right? 4 minutes left? Began with jobs, ending with jobs.

by Kai Ryssdal via twitter 10/17/2012 2:26:37 AM
Obama is terrible without his teleprompter.

by Reesie 22 10/17/2012 2:26:37 AM
outsourcing question on deck ...

by KUHF News 10/17/2012 2:26:48 AM
AhhhI Outsourcing! One mean question after another for Romney.

by Shirish Date / NPR 10/17/2012 2:26:53 AM
If you're going to say this is important, then get to the point quickly!

by indyvoter 10/17/2012 2:26:54 AM
Right. RT @poniewozik: And now it's the shoehorn-in-every-talking-point-you-didn't-get-to portion of the debate

by Kai Ryssdal via twitter 10/17/2012 2:26:56 AM
Why did Obama allow Romney to frame this question?

by Farmer Janet 10/17/2012 2:26:57 AM
Pandering? Or answering a complex question in limited time? The second.

by SQ 10/17/2012 2:27:13 AM
We are meandering and off topic. The gun discussion was a bust.

by worried 10/17/2012 2:27:23 AM
Make no mistake. What Candy Crowley is doing right now is HARD work. She almost needs a gavel

by michele_norris via twitter 10/17/2012 2:27:26 AM
Guns in civl hands are to protect against governments out of control - Like Nazi Germany / Like Serbia / etc.

by wolfmanjack 10/17/2012 2:27:33 AM
NPR's Michele Kelemen tells us: As Candy Crowley rightly fact-checked during the debate, President Obama did use the word "terror" when he spoke in the Rose Garden the morning after the attack in Benghazi. He said "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation. …"
www.whitehouse.gov

by Greg Henderson / NPR 10/17/2012 2:27:50 AM
Obama sounds unfocused and aggressive

by Political eye 10/17/2012 2:28:05 AM
Romney keeps contradicting what he has said before!

by Rebecca 10/17/2012 2:28:06 AM