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October 15, 2012

Obama, Romney Prepare for 2nd Presidential Debate 
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With just over three weeks until the election, President Obama and
Republican challenger Mitt Romney will hold their second debate on
Tuesday at New York's Hofstra University. On Friday, Romney and vice
presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed supporters in Ohio just hours
after Ryan squared off against Vice-President Joe Biden.

Mitt Romney: "When it came to jobs, both last night with Vice President
Biden and my debate with President Obama, they didn't have a plan for
creating jobs for middle income Americans. They say they care for
middle-income Americans and I believe they care, they just don't know
what to do and so they say they are going to have another stimulus. How
did the last one work out?"

Paul Ryan: "What we are witnessing when we turn our TVs on a daily basis
is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy and when you say, 'It is
ok to impose these devastating cuts in our military,' or 'That we don't
need any more Lima built M1 tanks,' what we are doing is projecting
weakness and when we project weakness abroad our enemies become more
brazen, our enemies are more tempted to test us and our allies are less
willing to trust us."

Meanwhile, Vice President Biden addressed supporters in Wisconsin, where
he said the differences between the two campaigns are as stark as any in
his lifetime.

Vice President Joe Biden: "Anyone who watched that debate I don't think
there is any doubt that Congressman Ryan and I, Governor Romney and the
President, we have a fundamentally different vision for America and
quite frankly a fundamentally different value set. And, the fact is that
the differences that we have about the future of this country are quite
frankly profound. They are as profound as any differences, any
presidential campaign that I have observed, that I have been involved
in."