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Foreign policy takes center stage during final Obama-Romney debate listen

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Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, 2012 election, debates, foreign policy, Iran, Libya

In their final debate, President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney doubled down on foreign policy last night in Boca Raton. With only two weeks left until Election Day, the two presidential contenders were throwing punches about everything from sanctions on Iran to military spending. During the speech, Obama refueled criticism that Romney flip-flops on key political issues.

“Every time you’ve offered an opinion, you’ve been wrong. You said we should have gone into Ira...

USF students traveling to final presidential debate to press candidates on climate change listen

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Tags: climate change, global warming, USF, Student Environmental Association, SEA at USF, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, debates, 2012 election

The issue of global climate disruption has not been emphasized enough during this presidential campaign.

That’s the position of some students from the University of South Florida who are heading down to Boca Raton for the final presidential debate Monday.

"The Student Environmental Association is a student group at USF that works on lots of different campaigns aimed at working with the community and with the local students to clean up the campus and push sustainability issues. We ar...