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U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (L) listens during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (L) listens during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012.

Live Blog: The Second U.S. Presidential Debate

22:04 16.10.2012
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (L) listens during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (L) listens during the second U.S. presidential debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012.
21:59 16.10.2012
Question 6: A man in the audience, saying times remain tough. Obama outlines economic progress his administration has made, but acknowledges that a lot of Americans are still struggling.
He says the commitments he's made he has kept and those that he has not been able to keep are not for lack of trying. He says his administration will get it done in a second term.
Obama criticizes several of Romney's stated initiatives including cutting funding for Planned Parenthood and repealing the president's health care plan, also known as Obamacare.
Romney tells audience member that the nation can't afford four more years like the last four years. Romney says the president has not gotten done what he said he was going to do, including on immigration. Romney says the middle class is getting crushed under the policies of a president Romney says does not know what it takes to get the economy working again.
Romney says the economy is growing more slowly this year than last year, and grew more slowly last year than the year before. He says the president wants to do well but that the policies he's put in place have not allowed the country to take off and grow like it could have.
Romney says the president has tried, but his policies haven't worked. Romney says Obama is great as a speaker but that his record shows he hasn't been able to cut the deficit or achieve other goals.
21:53 16.10.2012
21:53 16.10.2012

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