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Third Debate Predictions
Who do you think will come out stronger?
What do you think will be the key issues?
I think Obama may bring up the previous Republican administration. Romney will definitely will bring up Benghazi.
Winner...not sure...hoping Romney 
Re: Third Debate Predictions
I predict that Romney will make a stronger case this time on Libya.
Obama will probably try to bring up two main subjects: the Osama bin Laden death and the fact that troops have left Afghanistan and Iraq. He'll try to insinuate that Romney would enter a war.
I figure it will be a tie or at least there will not be a decisive winner. I feel like this time there won't be combative attitudes.
I hope Romney does more than attack. Personally I have no idea what his foreign policy is, so this is his chance to be educational. I'm not super optimistic that will happen, though.
Prior to Libya I would have said Obama had the upper hand, but now he has some 'splainin to do. Whether they didn't know the whole story or couldn't share the whole story for security reasons, he has to say so or else he's in trouble.
I predict Obama supporters will say he won and Romney supporters will say Romney won. It's pretty pointless to even have this debate. I don't want to gleefully watch Obama rout Romney, only to turn on the news and hear it is a "tie".
Bah!
If they really wanted to see what candidates can do, the moderator would throw out questions relating to not-ripped-from-the-headlines places.
Places like Europe and Africa.
Here is where I sit as well.
Sounds about right.
Romney is going to focus hard on Libya. It's gonna be mostly Red Meat for the base. Obama is going to mention as some point "Bin Laden is dead" and talk about the world being a safer place than it was when he took office.
From what I've picked up on this board, if you think Obama sucks, you think his foreign policy sucks. If you like him, you think he's done a great job on foreign policy. Either you buy the Romney talking point that the world just doesn't respect and fear us anymore, or you think Obama has united the world in a hand-holding chain of happy singing and rainbows.
I don't think there are many undecided voters out there, so the main push from both candidates will be to drive turnout. It really does look like this election is now all about turnout in a few key states. If turnout is high, Obama wins; he's been far ahead among registered voters forever, but Romney has closed the gap among "likely" voters. If enough "unlikely" voters turn out and vote Obama, that will push him over the top. So I guess I do expect a number of answers that dodge questions and focus more on talking points designed to gin up the base and drive turnout.
I feel like Romney and Obama's foreign policy stances are really kind of similar, with only a few key differences.
There's a lot that goes into foreign policy that the public doesn't hear about (and honestly, that undecideds probably don't care about). I feel like they're going to go in circles and just say the same things over and over again tonight.
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