2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The real question is why is it the moderators job to not fact check?

Because they're the moderator. It's a debate. The candidates "fact check" each other. If it was an interview, then the interviewer would ask questions and such.

[Greyblades]

Also they're politicians, if they pointed out and corrected every lie and untruth it would take days.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I apologize in advance if this isn't clear ill fix tomorrow! I think it's fine if a moderators job is to fact check but let's decide ahead of time. And let's do it for both sides because Obama wasn't completely honest so why didn't she correct him it seems a bit unfair.

Some of the GOP primary debates had multiple moderators. Why not have a diversity of fact checkers?

Because they're the moderator. It's a debate. The candidates "fact check" each other. If it was an interview, then the interviewer would ask questions and such.

It seems obvious that candidates do not fact check each other in any way. Anything that candidates say in the heat of a debate has no real authority to it either way, what reason do you have to believe that the numbers Obama brings up are more legitimate than Romney's?

[Major Robert Dump]

The Heavy Hitters coming out of Obama. LOL

http://www.rgj.com/article/20121020/...ter-stage-Reno

[Strike For The South]

The Heavy Hitters coming out of Obama. LOL

http://www.rgj.com/article/20121020/...ter-stage-Reno

I love 30 year old part time students/part time social advocates.

Easily the most brain dead people in the country, that grand total of 20 books you read for your university degree does not make you enlightend, it makes you a fanatic who worships at a different altar minus the drunken holidays

get a job, hippy