Who Won The Third Presidential Debate? Results, Polls, Review & Details
Taking place on the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's Cuban missile crisis television announcement, Monday night's presidential debate was supposed to focus strictly on foreign policy. For the most part, that was the case. However, both of the candidates still had the tendency to forcefully steer the political arguments back to the economy. While the President insisted he's in the process of fixing the national debt issue, Romney continued to counter that he can do a better job.
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Unlike last week's debate which occurred in a town hall setting, the final debate at Lynn University had the opposing politicians confined to chairs affront moderator Bob Schieffer behind a round table.
From the early going, Schieffer made it very clear that he would stick and uphold the rules of the debate. Unlike the previous moderators Jim Lehrer and Candy Crowley, the CBS newsman was seemingly treated with deference. Case in point, when Romney tried insisting he should be given the opportunity to retaliate on one of Obama's points, Schieffer reminded him that he's already made his fair share of counters, in which the Governor chuckled and concurred. However, whether it was touching on trouble in Syria or the auto industry bailout in Detroit, the inevitable bickering still inevitably transpired.
Aiming to narrow down the gender gap, Romney also targeted women and stressed the importance of their equal rights. Not to be outdueled, Obama responded by continuously bringing up the women's rights issue. While doing so, he seemingly attempted to tie the female subject matter into most of the other topics the two went on to discuss.
In a poll conducted by CBS News on undecided voters, there were 53 percent who felt Obama was victorious, 23 percent that sided with Romney and 24 percent who thought it was a tie. The latest gap (30 percent) between the two candidates is strikingly similar the one from the first debate, except that the majority seemingly gave that one to Romney.
CNN's results indicated that the third debate was closer to a dead heat (48 to 40 percent), but did have it in Obama's favor. However, news anchor Wolf Blitzer did reveal that a majority of the network's poll did include more Republicans than Democrats.
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