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Watching the Vice Presidential Debate in Mendota Heights

Get the details on the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan airing Thursday night.

 

The first vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan is set for 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. Check below for more information on that debate and the remaining debates leading up to Election Day.

AOL will provide a live stream of the debate.

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Below is more detailed information on Thursday night's debate, as well as the schedule for upcoming debates:

October 11, 2012
Vice Presidential
Topic: Foreign and domestic policy 
Air Time: 8-9:30 p.m. Central Time
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan
Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)

The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

October 16, 2012

Presidential

Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 8-9:30 p.m. Central Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
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.

October 22, 2012

Presidential

Topic: Foreign policy
Air Time: 8-9:30 p.m. Central Time
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)

The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.

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splinter

4:01 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Here are some general questions.

The 30+ year credit bubble/binge has stopped. It is the "new normal" and not the post-WWII period where the US was only country left standing OR the 90s when we had explosive productivity gains from computers and the Internet.

The initial cause of the recession after the bubble triggered by most of us. Wall Street, fannie/freddie, homes as ATMs, etc. Glass Steagal was repealed under Clinton and Gore began some gov't red-tape cutting (before focusing on global warming) and Bush continued.

Here we are? High unemployment, high underemployment, more working harder than ever yet facing ever increasing taxes while seeing enormous deficits while bridges, roads, schools, failing.

What's your plan?

Hint: We need to raise revenue through tax reform (making much simpler) and exchange for reforming Congress, military spending, civil service (have you tried dealing with a fed gov't employee lately?), AND LONG TERM ENTITLEMENTS. Just google "CBO entitlement projections" or read Alice Rivlin's groups site.

We need leadership. Period.

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