President Barack Obama is looking to be the comeback kid during tonight's presidential debate, the penultimate of the 2012 election season.
With the consensus that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the first presidential debate, supporters of Obama are hoping he comes back with a few punches, figuratively, and tonight's setting could help him achieve that.
The format for the second debate is a major contrast from the first debate. Instead of sitting behind a podium and answering questions from a moderator, the second debate will be a town hall meeting style where undecided voters will ask the questions, on either domestic or foreign policy.
As CBS News noted, "When political reporters are posing the questions, the candidates usually have a good idea what to expect. But when members of the public get the chance to weigh in, the candidates can sometimes face curve balls that leave them flummoxed."
The approximately 80 undecided voters were selected by the Gallup Organization and about 12 of them will ask questions that were prescreened and seen beforehand by moderator Candy Crowley of CNN.
The advantage for Obama is he has the personality to talk to people on a one-on-one level, but Romney has been referred to as lacking a personality or "cold."
Even moderator Crowley acknowledged this aspect, "The challenge is that they've got to connect, not just with the people that are looking into the television and watching them, but to the people that are on the stage with them."
According to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), Romney won the coin toss and will be asked the first question.
The candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion.
The town hall meeting presidential debate will start at 9 p.m. tonight from Hofstra University in New York, on all major broadcast networks and cable news channels.
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