U.S. presidential elections: The first debate between Obama and Romney
According to AFP , Barack Obama will enter the scene from a position of strength, with a clear lead in the polls. Latest research institute Gallup poll gave him 50 percent of voting intentions compared with 44 percent for Mitt Romney, a difference greater than the margin of error.
For Mitt Romney, the meeting, which will be broadcast on all channels U.S. offers an exceptional opportunity to reverse the trend, with less than five weeks before the elections of 6 November.
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The economy and jobs will be the main topics of the meeting of 90 minutes, which will start at 19.00 local time (04.00, GMT, Thursday). Over 50 million viewers would have to follow.
CNN presents five important things that could count on winning these battles.
1. ATTITUDE
The first and most important test for president and Romney in this debate is to behave as if they were president in office. "If the President or Romney can pass this test, the rest does not matter. Larger ideas coming from a person you do not lower as U.S. president," said Republican strategist Alex Castellanos.
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2. INCIDENT IN LIBYA
The first debate is officially dedicated to domestic policy, national security issues and foreign policy was left for further discussion. But Romney may not be happy to wait so long to attack incident management from Benghazi.
3. ECONOMY
Wednesday evening will be presented two different versions. Candidate will present and will sell better program will be an important step in winning the debate and, more importantly, in winning votes undecided.
4. Women and Hispanics
With over 50 million people will watch the debate Wednesday night, Obama is unlikely to miss the opportunity to bring up these issues, on which is a considerable advance towards the opponent or.
5. MEMORABLE phrases
And last but not least, the debate will be a good time for speaking of memorable phrases. "Romney's team concluded that the debate is about creating moments and it has provided a series of phrases which he has memorized and practice using them since august with his advisers," said Ashley Parker and Peter Baker reporters in an article appeared in the New York Times.