Presidential Debate Time Tonight : 9 PM ET LIVE STREAM, WATCH ONLINE [Details on Obama/Romney Match Up]
With less than a month until Election Day 2012 (Nov. 6), presidential candidates Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama will meet for their third and final debate on Oct. 22 in Lynn University.
The event, held in Boca Raton, Fla., will be broadcasted on television starting at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and will be moderated by NBC News correspondent Bob Schieffer. Channels airing the debate include ABC, NBC, FOX, CBX, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN Espanol'
Watch live stream online of the debate, starting at around 8 p.m. ET.
The topic of discussion for the night is foreign policy.
The Commission for Presidential Debates posted on their website the specific points that will be addressed on Monday night and they are as follows:
-America's role in the world
-Our longest war - Afghanistan and Pakistan
-Red Lines - Israel and Iran
-The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism - I
-The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism - II
-The Rise of China and Tomorrow's World
The 90-minute debate will be broken up into six segments of approximately 15 minutes each. The moderator will open each segment with a question that each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to.
Obama and Romney, like in all other presidential debates, will give no opening statements but will be allowed to relay a 2-minute closing statement, according to the CPD.
Schieffer has previously moderated Bush, as well as Obama and John McCain. He has been with CBS News since 1969. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley moderated the second debate between Obama and Romney and PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer moderated their first debate.
Acclaimed talk show host Larry King will moderate an event held in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 23, of minor-party presidential candidates, which will also broadcast on the internet. The debate will include the following minority party candidates: Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, the Green Party's Jill Stein, the Constitution Party's Virgil Goode and the Justice Party's Rocky Anderson.
