Fought the Vice Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan

In a battle of substitutes, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan repeatedly clashed Thursday in topics ranging from the fate of Medicare until the terrorist attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya.

Both men were aggressive, eager to praise the strengths of their agendas and equally zealous attack their opponents.

Ryan was aggressive from the start, defying early versions of the attacks in Libya that offered the Obama administration, which initially said an anti-Muslim video ignited a crowd, instead of calling it a terrorist attack. He added that President Obama referred to the video six times in a speech to the United Nations after the attack on Libya.

"This becomes a bigger problem every day," Ryan said of the details still emerging from what the administration knew in those first days after the attack. Ryan said it was "an indicator of a larger problem ... the disintegration of the Obama foreign policy."

Biden defended the administration's response, saying it was based on intelligence that proved false. "Get to the bottom of it," he added.

Ryan, a federal agent had never debated nationally, despite his 14 years in Congress, showed no signs of nervousness during the confrontation with Biden, a veteran of 36 years of debate in the Senate.

Their confrontation, which was nationally televised from Centre College, was moderated by Martha Raddatz, ABC. The candidates were seated at a table, answering questions about national and international politics, the same format used by the vice presidential candidates Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman when discussed in the same college in 2000. The format, as in an interview Sunday program, is to produce more conversational exchanges.

Discussions of the vice presidential candidates usually have little effect on the election, but on Thursday had added significance after Obama opaque debut in the 3 October.

Since then, Romney is tied with Obama in national polls and closed the gap in several swing states.

In Florida, Romney established a seven-point lead, according to a survey Tampa Bay Times / Bay News 9/Miami Herald. Obama has a lead of one percentage point over Romney in a new poll of likely voters NBC / Wall Street Journal / Marist released Thursday. The margin is the same before the debate Obama-Romney. In Ohio, Obama liderea by 6 points. In Virginia, Obama was 2, but now Romney forward by 1.

With only scheduled debate between them, Biden and Ryan transited over and over domestic policy to international.

Biden used a question about the unemployment rate in the nation to criticize Romney's comments recorded in the blasts which 47 percent of Americans as dependent not taxpayers. Biden accused Romney of having said that the foreclosure would get to the bottom.

Ryan Biden Faces in the Vice Presidential Debate to Slow the Momentum Republican

Discussions for vice president of the United States, traditionally, do not usually have little impact, but this October 11 between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan might be an exception. Especially, after the trip of President Barack Obama during the first discussion with the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, and that meant a drop in the polls for Democrats.

In fact, in the last poll made public and conducted by Reuters / Ipso, Romney registered 47% of the voting options compared to 44% of President Obama, a true back in the results. Obama has gone to take a lead of almost ten points, according to this latest survey, go back. Biden Democrats have to attenuate the momentum achieved by the Republicans.

The shadow of the debate for the presidency 
Both Biden and as Ryan seem more comfortable playing in the traditional political role of attack dog, and that may be reflected in a sharp and critical debate than Obama and Romney held.

"I would be surprised if there were more fireworks in this debate than there were in the first presidential debate," said Reuter’s political science professor at the University of Maine, Mark Brewer.

"Congressman Ryan will try to match the aggressiveness and confidence last week showed Romney and Vice President Biden will try to be more assertive, direct, and belligerent critical that President Obama" said Efe Benjamin Knoll, professor of political Centre College in Danville, where the debate will take place.

Biden is facing the challenge to halt the decline in the polls has been President Barack Obama from the debate last Thursday in Denver (Colorado), in which, as the president himself acknowledged, was "too right" to attack Romney.

The Democratic candidate, 69-year-old is not known for its reservations and politically correct statements. As a veteran of two presidential campaigns and 36 years in the Senate, is an experienced debater who combines a deep knowledge of the country's politics and positions with a 'down to earth'.

Meanwhile, Ryan, 42, faces for the first time this type of debate, although it is one of the major ideologues of the current U.S. conservative movement Combine polite behavior with his indomitable will reduce the role of the federal government.

According to Efe said Professor Emeritus of Vanderbilt University, Erwin Hargrove, Republican candidate "represents about half of the followers" of his party and is an "apostle Republican free market capitalism and limited government."

In addition, Ryan has years of experience selling conservative ideas to voters in a scenario in which there are especially predisposed to buy. His constituency in southeastern Wisconsin is one of the most balanced in the country, but has easily won re-election in the last 14 years, despite its calls to cut popular programs of social assistance.

Biden pressure

After the first debate between Obama and Romney, many Democrats have criticized the president for allowing some accusations of Republican candidate on key issues such as taxes or health, remain without adequate response.

In fact, after it launched the Democratic campaign messages accusing Romney of lying about these issues.

For this occasion, Biden himself has said it will not allow the charges on these questions remain unanswered. However, the inclination of Biden to exit the script makes that action is "unpredictable", as pointed Efe University professor Mark Brewer Maine.

The discussion of 'Medicare'

In the same way that the presidential debate last week focused mainly on economic issues, the vice presidential debate would focus particularly on health care reform.

Ryan has built its reputation with its proposal to partially privatize the government's plan on social security for the elderly and disabled, in an effort to keep health costs engulf the federal budget.

Democrats, meanwhile, say the plan would force retirees to pay thousands of dollars for medical treatment.

Thursday's debate could be the best opportunity for the Republican nomination to win over independent voters who are concerned that Obama has not done enough to curb the budget deficit of a trillion dollars, and the attack on the health plan can be a good weapon.

Other Matters

Recent developments, especially in Libya where the U.S. ambassador was killed after an attack on the embassy in Benghazi, have served the Romney campaign to intensify their criticism of the Obama administration over its foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, accusing it of weakness.

Ryan said a Romney administration and Ryan would follow a strategy of "peace through strength", a clear reference to national security theme favored by the Reagan Administration.

However, the Republican candidate will face a veteran with extensive foreign policy experience. And while national security is a portfolio that has favored the GOP in past elections, the death of Osama bin Laden and the safety program of the Obama administration in Pakistan drone, perhaps help explain the consistent advantage of the President on the subject in the polls.

Professor Benjamin Knoll Biden expected to turn to one of his favorite sayings campaign, "Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive", to "remind viewers triumph over bin Laden."

On paper, the mismatch of the two candidates on foreign policy is total. But that does not necessarily mean that Biden take advantage. "Sometimes you know so much, you're ineffective," said the professor at Southern Methodist University, Cal Jillson. "What Biden has to do is take everything you know and distill it into something easily digestible for voters who are not experts. Ryan has to do the same, but it also has to sound like he knew enough to be believable" .

While Biden received his final training sessions at his home in Wilmington (Delaware), Ryan arrive this Thursday at Lexington (Kentucky) to attend a campaign rally and then move to Danville, the quiet town of just over 16,000 people this Thursday will host the only vice presidential debate of the campaign.