All ready for the second round between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This evening, when it will be three in the morning in Italy, the two candidates for the White House will compete in a new national live televised debate in the United States. The outgoing President must make us forget the lackluster performance of last October XNUMX, when the Republican leader managed to put him in difficulty, proving in fact more convincing.
I specific polls they keep reporting one situation in the balance, a real head-to-head that will be resolved in a dozen states, where the difference in preferences is minimal. In nine of these, at the moment, Obama is still ahead, but his margin has narrowed after the debate three weeks ago.
Tonight's fight will be held at the University of Hofstra, in Hampstead, 40 kilometers from New York. The form will be that of the "town hall meeting", or "the municipal meeting", in which the candidates will answer questions from citizens.
Obama aides assure that the president will be "firm but respectful." Indeed, his supporters would like him to be a little less considerate than he appeared on Oct. 3, when he failed to retort even to Romney's most questionable claims. For this reason, the Democrats greatly appreciated the performance of Vice President Joe Biden, who attacked Romney's deputy Paul Ryan head-on last Thursday in the debate between the two.
Meanwhile, the two presidential candidates prepare for battle away from the spotlight. The Republican leader has been in his residence in Massachusetts since Saturday, while Obama and his advisers are in a hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia.
At the center of the debate, domestic and foreign policy issues. The President-in-Office will have to defend the decisions of his administration at theattack suffered in Benghazi, Libya, which cost the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
A very delicate issue on which the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, wanted to anticipate. The former first lady, interviewed last night by the American television stations CNN and Fox, defended Obama, assuming full responsibility for the reduced security conditions around the consulate before the attack.
