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What Time is the Vice Presidential Debate?

Here are details on Thursday's debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan.

 

 

The first and only vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan is set for 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. Check below for more information on that debate and the remaining debates leading up to Election Day.

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October 11, 2012
Vice Presidential
Topic: Foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan
Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)

The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

October 16, 2012

Presidential

Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)

The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.

October 22, 2012

Presidential

Topic: Foreign policy
Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)

The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.

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Reaganite

8:30 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Patch thanks for telling us when where and how the debates will be handled

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Al Angello

8:59 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

We will see if Paul Ryan can run from the republican platform the way Mitt Romney did..

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Tom

9:30 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

It shouldn't be too hard considering that the attacks on our embassies clearly is a FAILURE in the current administration's foreign policy!

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Reaganite

10:58 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Bus Driver Tells 12 Year-Old He Should Have Been Aborted Because of Romney Yard Sign...(I love the Libtards showing their colors)

Al, Obama is the one in track shoes, his man-child presidency, and neo-socialist policies have crippled this country. Reagan inherited a worse mess (Thanks Jimmy) and cleaned it up in three years. Remember that...he won 49 of 50 states in 1984.

Joe Melchiorre

10:00 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hey Al, how does the kool ade taste?? Getting sour yet?? LOL!!

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Al Angello

10:03 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

We will also see if Paul Ryan can blame the attack in Libya on the president. The republicans are talking about it, but so far the blame game has no traction.

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An interested bystander

10:44 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Al, the President referred to the murder of 4 Americans by terrorists as "a bump in the road" and then flew off to Vegas.

I don't care what party you're in, if that does not offend you, then you have no conscience.

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Mike Shortall

2:33 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Ryan may not be able to blame the attack on The President; but certainly he can lay blame for The Administration's fatal blunderings to anticipate the attacks and properly protect American diplomatic personnel!

On the other hand, I wouldn't consider it out of the question that Joe Biden blames The President. Just sayin' ...

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Reaganite

5:43 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

And another security team member killed in Yemen. I am sure Obama will launch a few cruise missiles to get his poll numbers up...hell it's all he has..because his past performance has failed.

Mike Shortall

10:37 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Rumor has the Obama campaign is telling Biden to limit his responses to grunts and one-word answers.

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Sharpie

10:41 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Expand your vision of what is possible for America. Listen to Judge Jim Gray, the Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate via online commentary today, this evening 10/11/12 since the Libertarian ticket has been excluded from voicing their view on the televised national Presidential debates despite being on the ballot in all 50 states + Wash. DC.

http://www.facebook.com/events/446681552035981/

https://plus.google.com/events/ce8d60avgrh3uutdpiimd18tlcs

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Reaganite

10:49 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Yes please split the vote. Vote for Jim Gray and re-elect Obama and Biden. Really that's how that works.

Jeff Lugar

10:46 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Why are all four broadcast networks covering these? They should have each just taken one.

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Reaganite

10:47 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Because the reality TV people are all out of ideas.

Al Angello

11:02 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Ryan should do well if he abandons the republican platform like Mitt Romney did.

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Sharpie

12:42 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

To Reaganite - A vote for VP Judge Jim Gray is a vote for VP Judge Jim Gray on the Libertarian ticket w Gary Johnson running for President. Have some faith. Don't fall for the same old two-party baloney again. Play a part in restoring liberty here at home, and advancing a new earth throughout the globe.
Stop dying for freedom, and start living for it.
Gary Johnson and Judge Jim Gray - LIve Free
Be Libertarian for one election. Give real peace a chance.

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/

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Ben Miller

5:06 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

No, a vote for the Libertarian ticket is a vote thrown away. Consider that the most prominent 3rd party candidate in history, Ross Perot, never even got one (1) electoral collage vote. He was in the debate, spent the same amount of money as the Dems and Repubs, yet not one single electoral college vote and not one state under his belt Everyone that voted for him basically threw their vote away.

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Reaganite

5:45 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sharpie..I know what you mean, and I love some of the Libertarian ideals. But some of the main ones...Foreign Policy is a non starter. Ross Perot thought the same way back in 1988 and all we got was a stained rug and drapes in the oval office. Voting for Gray=Obama relected.

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Reaganite

5:47 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Ben, I am hoping for a comedic meltdown from Joe, aided by the "unbiased" moderator who had Obama at her 1991 wedding.

Sharpie

5:45 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

To Ben Miller - Perhaps some of us consider a vote for either of the two-party candidates is a vote thrown away. How long are you going to be throwing your vote away? How many times are you going to buy the spin?

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Sharpie

5:57 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

To Reaganite - Comparing the year Ross Perot ran to the deplorable condition our country is in today should be obvious to all. You're the one throwing your vote away. Give someone else a chance. Both major parties have had their chance, many times over. It's way past time for something else.

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Reaganite

6:34 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sharpie, we are closer than you think in out ideas and beliefs. I believe the government is limited by the Constitution. The idiots in govt should provide national defense and build roads and that is all. However I am unable to convince any conservatives that this is the right way. So I either remain an angry libertarian or realize life ain't perfect and move on to get it a bit closer to my ideals. Gray has nothing to offer me, not even peace of mind if I did vote for him, because the reality is I wasted my vote.

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Ben Miller

7:59 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

The simple fact is that 75% of this country has already decided on either Romney or Obama... Many of them will vote straight party. Gray has absolutely no chance of winning the election or even winning one single state. All your vote for Gray will do is allow Obama to be one vote higher, because quite frankly, Gray and Romney's stances aren't all that different, while he and Obama are miles apart. Hence, a vote for Gray is a vote for Obama.

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Sharpie

8:27 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

Well, Reaganite, I suggest you build up some faith in your convictions. Defeated while you're barely trying is a sure bet nothing will change, and things probably will get worse. Don't be so certain there aren't many who wish more for our country than what we're getting. Voting differently this election is the ONLY way to not throw away your vote. You should be using your smarts to help others see the way since our exclusive Presidential debates won't help them see the light to a new earth, and a better country and world. If you can't convince conservatives, try convincing progressives; try convincing anybody. Don't just throw away everything you believe in. Don't give up. All things are possible ... w love.

Sharpie

8:30 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012

BTW, Gary Johnson is running for the Presidency on the Libertarian ticket. Judge Jim Gray is on the Libertarian ticket as VP. And, no way are people decided. They are more sick and tired than decided.

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