Some Interesting Debate Questions
While the candidates are using many of the spare hours to study for the Oct. debate in Denver,
moderator Jim Lehrer is no doubt burning the midnight oil thinking of challenging questions.
To help him out,
Politico has come up with five good ones for each candidate, roughly paraphrased as follows
Questions for Obama
•Economists say that if the 2009 stimulus had been bigger, more jobs would have been created. Why was it so small?
•You promised to unite the country but you didn't. How do you answer people who expected you to do it?
•Why haven't you done more to help people who have lost their homes in the recession?
•How can you promise to protect entitlements when you have put them on the table?
•Why haven't you shown leadership on gun control?
Questions for Romney
•Can you now promise you won't eliminate the mortgage deduction? Name one loophole you will close.
•If you keep the popular (but expensive) parts of the ACA, how will you pay for it?
•Is it fair that you pay a lower tax rate than ordinary Americans?
•Why did Paul Ryan need to give you more tax returns than you are willing to disclose yourself?
•Name three things you disagree with in Ryan's budget plan.
The first debate is do or die for Romney.
He needs a clear victory to stop the downward spiral, lest his funders abandon him and put their money in Senate and House races.
Romney has to decide early on what his tone will be.
It could be a full frontal attack on Obama as a socialist hell bent on ruining the country.
His base would lap that up but the few swing voters left would not like that at all since Obama is personally popular.
Another approach is to try to depict Obama as a decent human being and good husband and father who is simply in over his head.
In other words, paint him as the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
But if Obama is in full command of facts and figures and acts presidential, that approach could easily fail.
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