October 15, 2008 9:14 AM PDT

CBS live Webcast: Presidential debate, round three

by Jonathan Skillings
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Just as the economy has dominated headlines in recent weeks, it is likely to be the overriding issue Wednesday night in the third and final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.

The presidential candidates will take to the podium at 6 p.m. PDT, this time at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Moderating the debate--which is to focus in on domestic policy as well as economic matters--will be Bob Schieffer, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News and host of the show Face the Nation.

Both McCain and Obama this week released new proposals on ways to reinvigorate a punch-drunk economy. After a pummeling last week, the markets have shown a glimmering of a rebound; meanwhile, the latest stimulus effort by the U.S. government involves taking a stake in a number of banking institutions.

You can watch the debate live and online at the CBS News Debate Webcast site. It will be followed by a Web-only analysis and commentary session with Katie Couric, the CBS News political team, and guests. You can also submit your own questions, now or during the event, at the Debate Webcast site.

See also these previous post-debate Webcasts:

Examining McCain-Obama debate No. 2
Examining McCain-Obama debate No. 1
Examining the Biden-Palin debate

Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon.
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by drfrost October 15, 2008 9:31 AM PDT
One way to insure bad legislation gets fixed is to make sure that it ends up costing the legislators as much as it costs the rest of us.
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by thefubb October 15, 2008 5:52 PM PDT
Bring up the fact that most of this economic downturn has to do with the criminal real estate swaps that have funneled between 15 trillion and 75 trillion dollar out of our economy and we need to hunt down these all the financial terrorists and and seize their assets and resore substance to this economy..no bailouts..bring back the regulation and financial stability to the world economy. Jail these financial terrorists now!!
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by NOZEVA October 15, 2008 6:50 PM PDT
If Senator McCain willing to give tax brakes to the big corporations?
What are they going to do about all the jobs that continue to go of shore ?
Big corporations continue to get tax breaks.

Why don't we stop the subsidy to the big corporations if they send jobs oversea?
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by NOZEVA October 15, 2008 6:57 PM PDT
If we want to save money why don't we make it clear that for the first time of any presidential candidate regardless of whom the winner is.

The subsidy and the help to any country will be cut in half till we get out of the hall that we are in.
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by tootsarina October 15, 2008 7:33 PM PDT
I am an independant and have followed this election for the last two years. These debates have shown me that the republicans just do not have a real canidate just another puppet and I am genuinely insulted by the choice of Sara Palin as any thing but especially a VP. I found John Mcian rude and disrepectful to the prosess. His smirks and comments against Senator Obama as he blantly did not listen to the questions or the answers. Senator Obama was eloquent and very intuned to the needs of this country. He actually has a plan where Mcain is out of touch. Cheryllynn
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by sument October 15, 2008 8:01 PM PDT
At the end of every debate Obama or his wife were not at all friendly. Seems like he does not get along with anyone who does not agree with him. He also tries to show McCain in a negative vein like the Washington school vouchers, he "agrees" that they are in a bad state and that the vouchers are doing good. He is falsely trying to make viewers fell like the vouchers are not working and instead of using the successful method in all states, he is trying to tell us that only Washington benefits and not the other states. Presidents do not work in only 1 state, they do things all over the country, Obama clearly does not understand his role and has not experience either.
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by izbel October 15, 2008 8:37 PM PDT
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) ?focuses on low-income housing, voter registration, the minimum wage and other issues.? The GOP likes to raise the specter that voter fraud is a problem because drives to register voters by such organizations tend to register people who don?t vote Republican, i.e. the young and the poor. ?The current ACORN controversy plays into these ideological perceptions which are heightened on the Republican side by Sen. Barack Obama's history as a community organizer and his campaign's payment of the better part of $1 million to a group affiliated with ACORN for campaign work, with ACORN getting $80,000 directly.? I personally think that ACORN is a remarkably effective and honest organization, and that if the banking industry in this country had adhered to ACORN standards of lending we wouldn?t be in the current financial mess. I have an ACORN brokered loan from Bank of America, and I had to meet very stringent requirements and show proof of income, employment, and ability to re-pay the mortgage loan for my first home. This is not how BofA or other mainstream banks normally function, based on my experience of being offered loans without any proof of income required. (quotes from the Swamp, Chicago Tribune)
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