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Hours before her prime-time moment Tuesday as Mitt Romney's best cheerleader, Ann Romney was energetically at work on her mission - doling out homemade pastries to the media, talking up her husband's "regular guy" love of Costco shirts and presenting an ever-smiling face to supporters.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are tying to do whatever they can to avert the attention from Ryan losing the Vice Presidential debate. The main area of contention is whether or not the US Embassy in Benghazi asked the American government for extra security before the attacks on September 11th that killed 4 Americans. Biden claims that he and the president were not asked to enhance security measures, while sworn testimony from the staff of the embassy said that they asked for more protection. In my opinion, there is a lot of ad-libbing in the debates, therefore to put a candidates word choice under so much scrutiny is pointless. Mitt Romney's camp seems to be jumping on biden's every word to make up for the insufficiencies in his own platform.

Its unfortunate that the campaign race has become something of a food fight of gossip and rumors. It has gotten to the point where no one can tell who is telling the truth or not. Romney seems determined to portray the President as incompetent especially his comparison between Joe Bidden and Paul Ryan.

Although I agree with both Matt and Rory, I would like to point out that the criticism of the campaign is very much focused on the Republican party. I think it's important to note that perhaps Biden did, in fact, distort the truth in the debate; saying that he didn't know about something if he did is not a simple slip of the tongue. factcheck.org put Ryan's falsehoods at 6 and Biden's at 3. Although it is clear who lied more, this is a disgusting statistic: the candidates lied NINE TIMES during their debate. Although there is a lot of information they have to cover, I think that one must hold Biden as responsible for his lies as one does Ryan.

Recently republican candidate has claimed that current vice president Joe Biden has contradicted the US State Department with regards to its position on Lybia. It's believed that Romney hopes to make Obama less credible with regards to his foreign policy.

thought this was an interesting take, even though I disagree with it

This French perspective on the US electoral process is really eye-opening. As Americans we are desensitized to the fact that vast swathes of our country are effectively ignored in the Presidential election process. However, from an outside perspective this phenomenon appears strange and disturbing. In France, which elects its presidents directly, the electoral college seems to subvert the interests of democracy without a clear purpose. Thus, the analysis of non-swing states addresses questions I would have never really thought to ask. This article focuses primarily on Georgia and South Carolina as examples of this phenomenon. The finding that many individuals in poor and uneducated populations in these states don't know who the Republican candidate is or when the election will occur is shocking and a little alarming, but, upon greater investigation, makes sense. Why would a presidential candidate ever visit either of those states in this day and age?

Let's talk about this one in class!

The Iranian national currency, the rial has been in steady decline for months, and the only method that the government has used to combat the issue is to print more money-- not the best plan of action.

I agree with what Alexander said. I think it would be interesting to investigate whether or not the Obama administration has considered applying economic pressure to Iran in order to achieve diplomatic means. With Iran in such an unstable economic state (which I am surprised isn't covered more by American news media), why would the US government even consider using military force against Iran if the Ahmadinejad regime could be destabilized in another way. We'll see how Obama and Romney treat this issue in the foreign policy debate, as Obama could use an argument based on Iran's economic instability in going against Romney's position on using military force against Iran.

yes!

Romney's five point economic plan--Los Angeles Times