CBS live Webcast: Presidential debate, round three
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
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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?
The subsidy and the help to any country will be cut in half till we get out of the hall that we are in.
- 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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