In the second presidential debate, undecided voters asked the
candidates questions on a range of important issues.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were, for example, made to discuss outsourcing, which has been the central issue in Illinois’ 17th Congressional district race, and reproductive rights, which has emerged as a key issue in the 8th and 10th Congressional district contests.
There was also a clash on immigration policy and priorities, an issue ignored in the first debate, which mostly focused on fiscal policy.
At
one point, President Barack Obama argued that,
while obviously restrained by Congress and changing circumstances, a
president mainly tries to do what they say they will do in their
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Republican presidential primary candidate Jon Huntsman said it's time his
party adopt a more progressive stance on a number of issues at the
University of Chicago Thursday evening.
