The Second Leg Ryan Biden Debate

Debates become the U.S. election campaign. After the first face-off between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is the turn of the vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. It will be in the early hours of Thursday to Friday (3:00 a.m.) and will take place at Centre College in Danville (Kentucky). Will be moderated by journalist Martha Raddatz, senior foreign correspondent for ABC News, and consist of nine segments of ten minutes each, in which the candidates will have two minutes to respond to questions from the moderator.

Here are four keys to follow the discussion of two numbers of each candidate.

1. Joe Biden to the rescue. 

After Romney's victory last week and his current surge in the polls, the debate takes on greater importance Vice and stakes if confirmed the upward trend of Republicans or if instead Biden gets reverse trend of recent days. What is expected of him in the debate?

 To communicate the successes of the Obama administration, something the President was not able to do last week.

 Clearly explaining the reasons why the United States needs a Democratic administration for the next four years.

 Paul Ryan put on the defensive and to highlight the most controversial aspects of his speech.

2. Paul Ryan's strategy.

Last week Mitt Romney parlayed a message center and moderate. For Ryan to be seen whether the strategy is the same or, on the contrary, his speech comes out that both excites conservative social base Republican, especially on issues such as fiscal and budgetary policy, health, social security, etc. . Whatever your strategy Ryan will have to:

Facing an opponent prepared, with great experience and willing to win at all costs.

Managing expectations. Mitt Romney's performance in the first debate left the bar high, so Ryan should get a similar result.

Demonstrate what normally should do all aspiring Vice President: he is ready to act as President if necessary and capable of defending his party's proposals convincingly.

3. Two politicians who thrive on confrontation.

The ideological distance between the two candidates and their experience in the dialectical melee priori promise a lively debate and intense. While Joe Biden has earned a great reputation for sharp and incisive spokesman, Paul Ryan is considered brilliant in handling numbers and data (is an expert on the accounts) and is one of the largest intellectual values ​​of the Republican Party.

4. Two different generations.

The current Vice turns 70 in November and has an experience of four decades in Washington. When first won his seat in the Senate, Paul Ryan was 2. Been discussed countless times, as a Senate candidate and as a primary candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the Government. Meanwhile, Republican Ryan is 42 years old and this is the first debate of this nature facing.