2012美国总统大选第二次电视辩论文稿.doc

(CNN) - President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met in Hempstead, New York Tuesday evening for the second of three presidential debates, moderated N Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley.
CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NewYork. I'm Candy Crowley N's "State of the Union." We are herefor the second presidential debate, a town hall, sponsored by mission on Presidential Debates.
CROWLEY: The anization chose 82 mitted votersfrom the New York area. Their questions will drive the night. Mygoal is to give the conversation direction and to ensure questions getanswered.
The questions are known to me and my team only. Neither mission, nor the candidates have seen them. I hope to get to asmany questions as possible.
CROWLEY: And because I am the optimistic sort, I'm sure thecandidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.
Each candidate has as much as two minutes to respond to monquestion, and there will be a two-minute follow-up. The audience herein the hall has agreed to be polite and attentive - no cheering orbooing or outbursts of any sort.
We will set aside that agreement just this once to ePresident Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.
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Gentlemen, thank you both for joining us here tonight. We have alot of folks who've been waiting all day to talk to you, so I want toget right to it.
Governor Romney, as you know, you won the coin toss, so the firstquestion will go to you. And I want to turn to a first-time voter,Jeremy Epstein, who has a question for you.
QUESTION: Mr. President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-oldcollege student, all I hear from professors, neighbors and others isthat when I graduate, I will have little chance to get can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, thatI will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?
ROMNEY: Thank you, Jeremy. I appreciate your - your question,and thank you for being here