Topics for Third Debate Announced
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opics for the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were announced by the moderator and debate commission on Saturday.
Moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News has selected five topics, though the Commission on Presidential Debates said those topics could change depending on news developments.
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Similar to the first debate between Obama and Romney, the debate will be broken into six 10-minute segments.
Two of those segments will focus on the first topic, “The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism,” the CPD statement said.
The other regional topics are “Our longest war - Afghanistan and Pakistan,” “Red Lines - Israel and Iran,” and “The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World.”
“America’s role in the world” is the fifth topic. The CPD said the topics may be raised in any order.