Will You Watch the Presidential Debate, Rochester?
Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama will go head-to-head in the first of three presidential debates on Wednesday night.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama will discuss domestic policy in the first presidential debate.
Will you tune in for the debates? Vote in the poll at the bottom of this article.
Jim Lehrer of PBS' NewsHour will moderate the first debate as the candidates focus on domestic policy. The debate will be divided into six time segments; Lehrer will open each segment with a question and each candidate will have two minutes to respond.
The debate will run from 9 to 10:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and C-SPAN, as well as cable news channels including CNN, MSNBC and more. The debate will be streamed live online here.
The national debate follows a local one in Rochester Hills: Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, will debate challenger Joanna VanRaaphorst at 7:30 p.m. at the Rochester Hills City Hall.
Here's a guide to the national debate season:
- Vice presidential debate, Oct. 11.
- Topic: Foreign and domestic policy
- Second presidential debate, Oct. 16.
- Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
- Third presidential debate, Oct. 22.
- Topic: Foreign policy
Scot Beaton
10:29 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012
WOW... One of best emails I've ever received
Welcome to Greece, only it will be worse...
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0
note: The World Trade Center scene was to over the top and uncalled for -- a different scene could have made the same point.
Patricia Kane
11:30 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Scot, that was a very simple and informative message--thank you for posting it. We hear a lot of rhetoric in campaigns, we vote, we don't see the results--I hope the time we do. It's going to be a long time in fixing-
Peter Adair
8:01 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Is there anything more important?
Erin
9:35 am on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Nerds like me never miss a debate of any kind. I'm chuckling a bit at how both sides are trying hard to lower expectations. I suspect these will be the only complementary words left in the rest of the campaign.
Also, I'm always wary of a lot of hype. Wednesday night could be a total dud. We'll see.
Erin
12:33 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Alex - from all the press I read, he did not even take the time from his "day job" to return the LOWV calls. A show of respect to the League of WOMEN Voters by calling to decline is not too much to ask, as is a show of respect to ALL voters by making every accomodation possible to be available for an honest presentation of a candidate's views.
LOWV was, and is, trying to provide many debates across the county and state and cannot always bend the schedule according to a particular legislator.