Both candidates prepare for the final presidential debate

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Updated: 10/22/2012 7:49 pm
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The third and final match-up between the two Presidential candidates is tonight and will be held right here in Florida; a critical state for this election.

President Obama and Mitt Romney are going though their final preparations before the final debate in South Florida.


Tonight's debate will be held at Lynn University and focus around foreign policy. Both sides are gearing up for their third and final chance to persuade voters.


"This is going to be a very close race and we've said that consistently. But we feel good about where we are," says Obama Campaign Sr. Adviser, David Axelrod.


Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) says, "The president had created this false image of Mitt Romney in the minds of some voters that was completely knocked down in that first debate."


President Obama held a lead in the polls heading into the debates. But according to the latest gallop poll, Mitt Romney's performances so far have lifted his numbers to lead the President 52-to-47.

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whosaysnocan - 10/22/2012 5:24 PM
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No one can get nativejax to listen to anything other than what it hears and believes from the Republican party. We can try, but it is useless. As for AARP they may "lean" Democrat, but overall their agenda is to help 50 years old & older folks to find help when they need it. Looking forward to the debate.

tlynn - 10/22/2012 4:22 PM
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"The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them." ? I think you should replace the word 'voters' with Plutocrats.

nativejax - 10/22/2012 3:36 PM
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No name calling, just facts... I have never heard this said as simply, or as well. Class warfare at its best. The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff. And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop. And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting! Now... the people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist. So... the people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place. We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff. Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them. The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 236 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it. ELECTION 2012 IS COMING A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

tlynn - 10/22/2012 3:13 PM
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Now, now, now…No need for name calling. tsktsktsk. ;-)

leroyjones - 10/22/2012 2:37 PM
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tlynn, you're a idiot!

nativejax - 10/22/2012 2:08 PM
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Excuse me tlynn, the 'Tea Parties and Republicans' didn't want OBama in there in the first place, so you better beleive they want him out NOW...so find someone else to blame for OBama's lie's. OBAMA'S IS STILL SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE. I am guessing you are either naive as h3ll or just young and dumb with all the trust and faith as a little lamb on its way to the slaughter house. Either way, the CHANGE your 'Anoited One' promised you has not come, NOR will it, if he gets re-elected...oh except you all did get your 'OBama phone'! wow, how embarrassing..

nativejax - 10/22/2012 1:51 PM
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Again you have your head buried in the sand of your 'exhaulted leader' tlynn. It is only WEEKS before the election, the DEFICIT HAS TRIPLED SINCE OBAMA GOT IN THERE. The economy and job market is STILL down, and millions have stopped looking..and NO ONE is investing in stocks anymore in this unstable economy except 'get rich quick', die hard Liberals.. Keep on with your 'wish full' thinking, but FACTS ARE FACTS. No one is disputing what OBama 'inherited'..but he was elected because HE SAID HE WOULD CUT THE DEFICIT AND HE HAS TRIPLED IT INSTEAD. OBama will push his 'false' propoganda campaign ads to get his re-election. BUT 'NO NATION CAN SURVIVE AND THRIVE ON MONEY IT DOES NOT HAVE'. These imaginary IMPROVEMENTS you keep talking about are just that, IMAGINARY. AGAIN...GET THE FACTS.

tlynn - 10/22/2012 11:47 AM
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I don't quite understand your rant nativejax… It's currently the Republicans and Tea party Republicans that have been holding this country hostage. They are in control in Congress, and their objective from day 1 was to do everything in their power to make sure that Obama was a 1 term President. Instead of working for the people they have been working to destroy this President, and this country. leroyjones, the 'failed policies' you speak of are not JUST the policies of this President…They are the policies of the last 50 years that have failed. As I've said in the past…The ditch that our most recent "business man" President drove us into could not possibly have been repaired by ANY President in just 4 years time. It took nearly a decade to ruin this economy, and should not be expected to rebound overnight. Things ARE improving…Stocks have rebounded, and the jobs market IS improving.

nativejax - 10/22/2012 10:17 AM
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(I mean 'hiding behind' and using AARP to lie about Romney). I quit AARP 8 years ago. Just as our Government does not own the Federal Reserve, it does not represent or work for US American's. It's run by liberals who have a stranglehold on our Congress and life's for their own person gain's and agenda's, not ours.

nativejax - 10/22/2012 10:08 AM
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The latest lies are the ads with OBama sitting with the elderly HIDING AND USING AARP stating that Romney will do away with Medicare etc. ALL LIES. EVERYONE knows AARP IS IN BED WITH THE LIBERALS.
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