Presidential Debate Video: Results & Voters' Opinions On Hofstra Event [FULL REPLAY]
The second installment of the 2012 Presidential Debate between Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama took place in a town hall setting in Hofstra University in New York on Tuesday night, Oct. 16. Within the intimate set up, the two candidates battled it out on numerous crucial subjects such as college affordability and the direction of the economy.
Upon the debate's close, several future Nassau County voters swarmed the media in order to voice their opinions. Two young individuals in particular had the opportunity to speak to MTV about the candidates and their performances during the event.
Sidney Madden, a 21-year-old journalism major, was pleased with the way President Obama handled himself during Tuesday's debate.
"[President Obama] was poignant, strategic, skillful and classic Obama," she said.
Although Dion Pierre, an 18-year-old political science major, was impressed with the president's improved performance from the first presidential debate, he felt as though Obama did miss several opportunities to address some of the country's other legitimate issues.
"I agree with Sidney, it was classic Obama. The president had nice zingy one-liners... but the president failed to tell America why he doubled the national debt, why our trade deficits are increasing, why our national debt's increasing, why it took us 44 months to get back to the same unemployment he had when he got in," he said.
The event kicked off with a question to Obama about college affordability. Madden said that she was satisfied with how the democrat confronted the topic, and was mostly impressed with the way Obama brought Romney's "general" answer into question and how he got specific on the technicalities.
However, Pierre still preferred to stick by his Republican favorite and said he had qualms about what he called Obama's "job killing" tax plan.
"Where's the job for me, where's the job for Sidney when she gets out of college. The president's policies are killing jobs," he said.
Obama and Romney will debate once more before the election on Monday, Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Fla.
