零五英语编者按：第二场辩论为Town Hall模式，现场观众为Gallup机构选出的undecided voters，他们预先提交的问题将有机会被主持人选中以直接向候选人提问（内政/外交），每次回答时间为2分钟。奥巴马很擅长这种模式，但罗姆尼最近5年town hall实战密集，从第一场来看，热身真的很重要。
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(CNN) - President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met in Hempstead, New York Tuesday evening for the second of three presidential debates, moderated by CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley.
CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NewYork. I"m Candy Crowley from CNN"s "State of the Union." We are herefor the second presidential debate, a town hall, sponsored by theCommission on Presidential Debates.
CROWLEY: The Gallup organization chose 82 uncommitted votersfrom the New York area. Their questions will drive the night. Mygoal is to give the conversation direction and to ensure questions getanswered.
The questions are known to me and my team only. Neither thecommission, nor the candidates have seen them. I hope to get to asmany questions as possible.
CROWLEY: And because I am the optimistic sort, I"m sure thecandidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.
Each candidate has as much as two minutes to respond to a commonquestion, and there will be a two-minute follow-up. The audience herein the hall has agreed to be polite and attentive - no cheering orbooing or outbursts of any sort.
We will set aside that agreement just this once to welcomePresident Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.
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Gentlemen, thank you both for joining us here tonight. We have alot of folks who"ve been waiting all day to talk to you, so I want toget right to it.
Governor Romney, as you know, you won the coin toss, so the firstquestion will go to you. And I want to turn to a first-time voter,Jeremy Epstein, who has a question for you.
QUESTION: Mr. President, Governor Romney, as a 20-year-oldcollege student, all I hear from professors, neighbors and others isthat when I graduate, I will have little chance to get employment.What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, thatI will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?
ROMNEY: Thank you, Jeremy. I appreciate your - your question,and thank you for being here this evening and to all of those fromNassau County that have come, thank you for your time. Thank you toHofstra University and to Candy Crowley for organizing and leadingthis - this event.
Thank you, Mr. President, also for being part of this - thisdebate.
college kids all over this country. I was in Pennsylvania withsomeone who had just graduated - this was in Philadelphia - and shesaid, "I"ve got my degree. I can"t find a job. I"ve got three part-time jobs. They"re just barely enough to pay for my food and pay foran apartment. I can"t begin to pay back my student loans."
So what we have to do is two things. We have to make sure thatwe make it easier for kids to afford college.
ROMNEY: And also make sure that when they get out of college,there"s a job. When I was governor of Massachusetts, to get a highschool degree, you had to pass an exam. If you graduated in the topquarter of your airlines, we gave you a John and Abigail Adamsscholarship, four years tuition free in the college of your choice inMassachusetts, it"s a public institution.
I want to make sure we keep our Pell grant program growing. We"realso going to have our loan program, so that people are able to affordschool. But the key thing is to make sure you can get a job when youget out of school. And what"s happened over the last four years hasbeen very, very hard for America"s young people. I want you to beable to get a job.
I know what it takes to get this economy going. With half ofcollege kids graduating this year without a college - excuse me,without a job. And without a college level job, that"s justunacceptable.
And likewise you"ve got more and more debt on your back. So moredebt and less jobs. I"m going to change that. I know what it takes tocreate good jobs again. I know what it takes to make sure that youhave the kind of opportunity you deserve. And kids across thiscountry are going to recognize, we"re bringing back an economy.
It"s not going to be like the last four years. The middle-classhas been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been tooscarce. I know what it takes to bring them back, and I"m going to dothat, and make sure that when you graduate - when do you graduate?
