The Abortion Debate in Biden-Ryan

The debate on Thursday kept the U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden and his Republican opponent, Paul Ryan, had a delicate point when asked to express their views on abortion, considering the Catholic faith they share.

Ryan said he did not understand "how a person can separate his public and private life of faith" and said his stance against abortion is based on that "life begins at conception."

Asked about the relationship of his Catholic faith, in relation to this matter, Ryan insisted that his position had nothing to do with religion, but with the values ​​that were instilled "to care for those in need."

"Democrats not only support abortion without exceptions, but also subsidize it," said the candidate for the first and only vice presidential debate of the election campaign in the U.S.

The moderator, Martha Raddatz, the delicate issue introduced by one of the common points of both candidates, their religion, to what Ryan said he did not understand "how a person can separate his public and private life of faith."

"The policy of the Romney Administration will oppose abortion except in cases of incest, rape or danger to the mother's life," he said about his earlier statement.

In his political platform the Republican Party opposes the practice of abortion without exception, and prohibits using federal funds to subsidize health plans that include abortion services.

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.

Joe Biden-Paul Ryan First Debate Between Two Catholics

On one side, Democrat Joe Biden, who says that wearing the rosary in his hand the day continued as vice president in the 'Situation Room' Bin Laden hunt. On the other, Republican Paul Ryan, someone who as a child was an altar boy in the parish of his neighborhood. For the first time in U.S. history, two Catholics clash in one of the presidential debates, the starring tonight (starts at 3 am GMT) by candidates for vice.

The religion that unites them while also separates: Wisconsin Congressman Ryan is practicing, defender of the Church's teaching on abortion and homosexuality, which was many years Delaware Senator Biden, receives less frequently sacraments, protects abortion and gay marriage advocates. Ryan can say that his opponent away from Catholicism in these issues, but Biden's claims that the Republican who stands out from the social doctrine of the Church, with its proposed budget cuts. In the background, the votes of Catholics, who constitute 27% of the electorate and a slight tilt toward Democrats historically, have become increasingly aligned with the majority vote.

Candidates' surrogates

The paradox is that in the great night of their political careers, both candidates will not defend their own views, but the application of their heads. For Obama, who will debate at 30,000 feet, flying back from Florida, it is essential that Biden truncate the upward trend of the Republican campaign, Mitt Romney who drove with his sharp victory in the debate last week. Romney is crucial for Paul Ryan prolong the "moment" in which he finds his bid for the White House. Obama and Romney will have his second face to face until next Tuesday.

Above all it will be a clash between a candidate more visual (Biden is on the verge of 70 years) and one young (Ryan has 42). The Republican celebrated his second birthday when the Democrats came to the Senate. The Democrats have the majority support of the youth, but this time their mobilization is less than four years ago when they turned on the election of Obama. Ryan's youth can attract some of the disenchanted.

The risks of each

Obama and Romney will continue the confrontation with fingers crossed: the president, Biden does not commit to one of his frequent gaffes, the former governor of Massachusetts, for the brilliance of Ryan takes you into the byways not electorally committed (expert on budget and health care reform, is easy to refer to issues with which Romney does not count).