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CSPAN Call-In For Debate Reaction October 23, 2012

We all recognize the have to do some nationbuilding. The building our roads, bridges, and especially caring for our veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom. We have been through tough times. But we always bounce back because of our character. Because be put pull together. If i had the privilege of being a president for another four years, i promise you i will fight for your families. I will work every single day to make sure that america continues to be the greatest nation on earth. Thank you. Bob, mr. President. Good to be with you. I am optimistic about the future. I am excited about our prospects as a nation. I want to see peace. I want to see growing peace in this country. It is our objective. We have an opportunity to have real leadership. America will have that kind of leadership and will promote principles of peace that will make the world a safer place. And the people in this country more confident that their future is secure. I also want to make sure we get this economy going. There are two different paths the country can take 31 is represented by the president which bought at the end of four years would mean we would have 20 trillion in debt. I will get us on track to a balanced budget. The president s path will mean continuing declining in take home pay. I want to make sure it starts to grow. The president s past means 20 Million People out of work traveling for a good job theory job. I want to get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program but by getting them good jobs. America will come back. For that to happen, we will have to have a Program President that can work across the aisle. I was in a state where my legislator was 87 democrat. I learned how to get along on the other side of the aisle. We have to do that in washington. Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back. We will work with democrats and republicans to do that. This nation is the hope of the earth. We have been blessed by having a nation that is free and prosperous, thanks to the contributions of the greatest generation that held a torch for the world to see. A torch of freedom and hope and opportunity. Now it is our turn to take that porch. I am convinced we will do it. We need strong leadership. I would like to be that leader with your support. I will work with you and the view in an open and honest way. I ask for your vote. I would like to be the next president of the United States to help and support this next week in this great nation and to make sure we maintain america as the hope of the earths protective so much. Gentlemen, thank you so much. That brings an end to this years debates in the want to thank Lynn University and its students. I leave you with the words of my mom said, go vote. Good night. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] tonights coverage of the third and final president ial debate. The candidates earlier this evening boca raton, florida. We want to use this next hour to get your reaction as we replay the debate in case you missed it. During our coverage, our phone lines are open. There is a line for those of you supporting our president and for those who are undecided. Lets get right to your phone calls. Tracy is joining us from st. Petersburg, florida. Caller i want to say that i think our president has done a fantastic job and he is the best choice to move our country forward. Host why do you say that . Caller he has done everything that he has said he was going to do. Oral was not built in a day. It will take him another four years to get this country back in shape. Host also joining us paula. Caller i have a comment about Foreign Policy. We have had more terrorist attacks since obama has taken office. Obama leaked information and that is why one of our navy seals is dead. Since obama has been president , there are allies in the middle east that do not like us. Obama would not meet with israels Prime Minister or with the un right after the crisis in libya and the middle east. He was too busy campaigning. Host thank you for the call. Donald is an undecided voter joining us from south carolina. Caller after tonight, i have made my decision. President obama is the man for the job. Host why do you say that . Caller he has done practically what he really set out to do. The economy, i understand. He did not create the problem with this economy. He really has the economy back on track. He said he was going to go into afghanistan because that is where the people were hiding out. He went in there and got osama bin laden. Tonight, i made my decision because i was looking at governor romney when he was talking and he really did not know what he was really talking about. You could tell he was trying to go by what he had been scripted to say. Host dennis, a supporter of the president. Good evening. Caller i would like to say to america, please, wake up. Lets get real. We are blaming the president. I would like ask the American People, if you had a company that you could take to china or south america and pay 2 per hour and you had to pay me 15 per hour, what would you do . These are the things youre blaming the president for. The private sector if you had a company that you could lay 15 people off, keep 10 people on the job, you are making money, you are making a profit, what would you do . Stop blaming the president for all of this. Host you can join the conversation on our Facebook Page and weigh in on the question, who won the debate . This is a nonscientific survey, but 20,000 people saying the president won the debate compared to about 9004 mitt romney. We will get more of your reaction from the debate. On the twitter page, this is from david from cnn. Host next is a supporter of governor romney. Patrick from california. Go ahead, please. We will go to charles next, who is joining us from arkansas. Go ahead, charles. Caller what is if people would listen to what is going on, they would see that romney is doing a lot of rambling. I really do not think that he knows what he is talking about. Host ben ahmed is joining us. Are you still undecided . Caller i am leaning towards obama because he seems to be a strong leader. I was supporting romney before, and romney seems to be everywhere on every issue. Host george is on the phone from kansas. A supporter of governor romney. Good evening. Caller howre you doing . I thought romney did a wonderful job and obama was all over the table. I support romney 100 . I hope he becomes our president. Obama has not done anything that he said he was going to do. Host earlier tonight, jim, the Campaign Manager for the president , in a meeting with reporters, we carry it on our web site, here is a portion. You cannot have any clearer of a choice than you saw on this issue. The backandforth on the military budget, romney will regret that answer for a very long time. The president correctly informs you what the military budget is. We need a military for the future and that is what the president is building. You got the impression that he was on the offense tonight. I am just wondering about that. He interrupted the governor on several occasions. He can be the leader, the commander in chief. You saw that the president could be very strong tonight. Strong and steady as the leadership has been the past four years. The difference between the two candidates could not have been clearer on that. He is right and the commander in chief and that is what the American Public wants. They want their leaders to be strong. Ronnie continues to change his positions on things, the unsteady, and he is wrong on iraq, afghanistan, and libya. Tonight, the American Public saw. How important is this for your race that nationally, you are losing . We have the advantage of 270 electoral votes. Every single opportunity we can talk about the difference between these candidates is successful for us. If people understood what the president wants to do at home and his plan to move the country forward, which was explained in good detail tonight, but more importantly, we saw romney was trying to involve the president and looked really on steady. The Romney Campaign said that president obama seemed to be debating a challenger. Do you think he is the underdog . Tonight, you saw a debate about strength. Romney was reckless and unsteady. That is what you saw tonight. When you deal in that kind of thing, you are in trouble in this kind of debate. They know that they are. Host jim mussina speaking to reporters earlier tonight. Two weeks before the election. Early voting under way in a number of key states. Tomorrow, live coverage of the president and governor romney as barack obama campaigns in florida. His first appearance of the morning at 10 10 eastern time on cspan. Later, live coverage of mitt romney and his running mate, paul ryan, in henderson, nevada. That Campaign Getting under way at 3 15 eastern. Chris is on the phone from south carolina. Good evening. You are undecided still . Caller i am undecided because i cannot understand how mitt romney can make millions. I cannot understand why the president they talk about all of these cuts. If they really cared about america, why dont they start cutting their own salaries . See just how hard it is when they have to pay for their own gas and groceries. Host who are you going to vote for . Caller i am going to vote for me because i would go about doing the job for free. Host we go to a lot to sam. Go ahead. Caller for those of their who are undecided, i feel like if they feel like he did not have the right thing to say to them, he is the leader that we need to be able to bring us, as a nation, back together to a restoration mode. He could not fall in the trap of, tonight, in the debate, that i believe the president was setting for him. That was pretty much what i wanted to say. Get out and vote, please. Host 80 walters joined us sunday on washington journal. She had this tweet for us. Referring to condoleezza rice. Your reaction to the debate tonight. Caller i thought that it was a very good debate, personally. I remember the candidates talking about syria and how the situation is very touchy. They both agree that assange should be removed from power and another person should be put in that is proamerican. There are many instances in history where america has gone in and put our own leader in place of a bad one, which has created a lot of antiamerican sentiment over the years. I want to remind people that it is not in the president s power to declare war and send troops overseas without consent from congress. I am a strong believer in that and i would like to see both candidates recognize that. I would also like to comment that romney mentioned we should turn our focus of china and look more towards latin america and the resources that they have. I am taking a course on the caribbean and am reading a book about an author who is very upset with europeannorth american countries coming inter country and exporting resources, leaving their country in a worse condition than when they entered. Host thank you for the call. From this livestream you can weigh in who won the debate on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. We have a supporter of governor romney from georgia. Caller i agree with mitt romney. The whole food stamps thing, i agree that more americans do need a job and need to stop living off the government. Host brandon from louisiana. Undecided voters still tax caller i am a big fan of obamas Foreign Policy. He is a genius with specific redeployment. Bragging that he has made conditions more favorable for u. S. Exporters when he has done that by destroying the value of the dollar is really offensive to me as an undecided voter. Host who are you going to vote for . Caller i am still not sure. I have not figured this one out yet. Host margaret joining us from alabama, a supporter of the president. Caller i think the president obama did an exceptional job on this debate. He is very concerned about the veterans and the people of the United States. He has a strong voice for us. It is what the people are wanting him to do and he has done a great job. Mr. Romney seems to be sending out potshots and trying to bad mouth the president instead of concentrating on the issues and doing what is best for the nation. Host a lot of snapshot polls on who won and who lost the debate, including this from cnn. Sam feist tweeted this melissa is on the phone from houston. Good evening. Caller i want to make a comment about president obama and the fact that he did keep a campaign promise. That promise was that change would take place. However, he did not bring forth good change in this country. Myself and my husband both had amazing jobs prior to him coming into office which we both lost. He bailed out the banks and said that that would trickledown and help. That never took place. Any program that he set forth that was supposed to reach out and help others, it did not. There was always an exception and there are many that i know who are losing homes who are middleclass americans who have worked hard, paid their taxes, paid their dues, and bought into the idea of change. That change is a horrible change and our country, if he stays as president , will continue to see abortions rising, health care diminished to the point where seniors are not taking care of, and more and more people will be financially devastated by this president. Host this election comes down to what, from your standpoint . Caller this election comes down to integrity and honor. Are they polish politicians who can speak very eloquently when the cameras are on or do they actually stand up and do what they said they were going to do . Host filip is on the phone from california. Good morning. Good evening to you, i should say. Caller good evening to you. I was undecided but i made up my mind. Listening to and following these debates and doing a little fact finding and hearing the truth. Romney is not in the position to run this country. I have heard too many lies that have come out of his mouth. I have to go with obama. A lot of this mans programs he tried to a put forth because they wanted to make him a one term president. Host the Senior Adviser and former chair of the Republican National committee and george w. Bush on the trail for mitt romney. He spoke to reporters earlier tonight. I think they would see some clear differences, especially when it comes to israel, National Security, the reckless and arbitrary budget cuts that president obama is proposing the governor romney is proposed is calling for when it comes to israel and ratcheting up sanctions on iran. They saw very clear differences. They saw from governor romney an agenda to not have this be subject to events around the world. I think they saw from president obama a failure to defend his own policies and inability to lay out policies for the future. That is what the American People are looking for, where are you going to take this . Governor romney laid that out tonight. Two weeks left. Where are you going to go starting in the morning . We have momentum coming out of this debate as we had in the first two debates. We will go into a continued discussion about our National Security and Foreign Policy and the differences there. They go very much into discussion about the economy. There was some talk about that tonight because our economic strength, national strength, not interNational Security is tied to that. Governor romney will continue to highlight his plans for a real recovery, as will congressman ryan. We cannot afford four more years like the last four years when it comes to job creation, our debt, health care, or our National Security. The president seemed to be debating as an underdog. I think it is going to be very close. I did see a lot of commentary that obama did seem to be in his role or approach, acting as a challenger who was behind. We know this is going to be a close contest. I talked to you a couple of weeks ago when things looked like they were going great for president obama. We have momentum with us clearly. Great debate tonight on top of the previous two debates. This is going to be a close contest. I feel very good about where we are coming out of this last debate. Host a close contest being targeted in a number of key states, including colorado and ohio, which is where the candidates will be tomorrow. Live coverage on cspan tomorrow as the president and Vice President campaign in dayton, ohio. Live coverage at 3 50 eastern time on cspan 2. Governor romney and paul ryan together in colorado. Coverage tomorrow evening just past 9 00 eastern time. Nate silver puts it this way on our twitter page polls, including the latest wall street journal poll, showing this race at 47 apiece. Back to your phone calls. Malik joining us from philadelphia. Caller howre you doing . I am for obama because, when you hear romney talk, it sounds like a man with power. When someone is a man with power, that means it is about money and not the people. Not everybody is rich and not everybody has millions of dollars. When it comes down to the people that need help, everybody else seems like they are at the bottom. I do not mean just a little bit of money host thanks for the call. Mary is on the phone from alaska. Go ahead. Caller i am a great grandmother and i have watched obama in this past four years. Our economy is not what it should be. We should not have soldiers in iraq, we should not have all of this situation going on. I believe we need a new face in washington. If we do not have a new face in washington, you are going to see bread lines like the depression in the 1920s. If you are going to see hurting people, starving people within the United States. I am going to vote for romney because i believe he is family oriented, he is for the people. A lot of people are being deceived. It is wrong but i am praying that they will wake up. Host this comment on our twitter page many of you voting on the cspan facebook poll. The survey showing that the president won the debate over mitt romney. This is an unscientific survey. We are simply asking the question, who won the debate . Starla is joining us, and undecided voter from ohio. Who are you going to vote for . Caller i am going to vote for obama. Host what in the deb

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