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DENVER (AP) â€" President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney come face to face for the first time in this presidential campaign Wednesday night for a nationally televised debate that will give millions of Americans a chance to size up two fierce competitors in a moment of high-risk theater.
Romney, trailing in polls in a number of key states and running short on time to reverse his fortunes, is angling for a breakout performance in the three 90-minute presidential debates scheduled over the next three weeks.
Obama, well aware that the remaining five weeks of the race still offer enough time for tectonic shifts in his prospects, is determined to avoid any campaign-altering mistakes as he presses his case for a second term.
A pre-debate skirmish Tuesday over Vice President Joe Biden’s passing reference to ‘‘a middle class that has been buried the last four years’’ demonstrated how just a few words can mushroom into something larger during a heated contest for the White House.
Wednesday’s 9 p.m. EDT faceoff between Obama and Romney on domestic policy at the University of Denver is sure to offer a blend of choreography and spontaneity: Both men have spent hours rehearsing smart lines and pithy comebacks with proxy opponents â€" yet know to expect the unexpected.
‘‘That’s what so tricky about this,’’ says Alan Schroeder, author of a book on presidential debates. ‘‘There’s never a template for preparing because each one takes its own direction.’’
The central role of the economy in this election is evident in the topics selected for the first three of the night’s six debate segments: The Economy I, The Economy II and The Economy III. The last three segments will focus on health care, the role of government and governing.
Romney has pinned his campaign on the argument that Obama has failed to adequately juice up the U.S. economy, but his challenge is reflected in recent polls showing growing public optimism about the economy and the president’s leadership.
Republicans tried to frame the economic debate in their terms Tuesday by pointing to the vice president’s comments in North Carolina about the beleaguered middle class as an unwitting acknowledgement that Obama’s economic policies have devastated average Americans.
‘‘We agree,’’ GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan declared in Iowa. ‘‘That means we need to stop digging by electing Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.’’
Obama’s camp countered that it was the policies of the president’s Republican predecessors that had caused the damage.
Biden, at a later campaign event, was careful to say that ‘‘the middle class was buried by the policies that Romney and Ryan supported,’’ calling their economic plans an amped-up rework of those from the George W. Bush years.
Romney calls Wednesday’s debate the beginning of a monthlong ‘‘conversation with the American people,’’ and the debates do tend to consume much of the political oxygen for several crucial weeks.
The candidates will be speaking to a TV audience of tens of millions in one of those rare moments when a critical mass of Americans collectively fix their attention on one event. Fifty-two million people tuned in to the first debate four years ago, and 80 percent of the nation’s adults reported watching at least a bit of the debates between Obama and Republican John McCain.
In a quadrennial pre-debate ritual, each campaign has worked overtime to raise expectations for the opponent while lowering the bar for its own candidate. The thinking is that it’s better to exceed lukewarm expectations than to fail to perform at an anticipated level of great skill.
But both men are seasoned debaters: Obama has been here before, facing off with McCain in 2008. Romney hasn’t gone one-on-one in a presidential debate, but he got plenty of practice thinking on his feet during the 19 multi-candidate debates during the Republican primaries.
On a long day of debate prep â€" Romney in Denver and Obama in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas â€" both candidates tried to blow off some steam Tuesday. The president made a tourist’s visit to nearby Hoover Dam, and Romney fit in a lunchtime outing to a Mexican grill for a burrito bowl.
The two candidates’ biggest fans talked up their debating abilities in pre-debate interviews.
Michelle Obama told CNN she’s like a nervous parent watching a child performing on the balance beam when her husband debates.
‘‘I do tell him to have fun and relax and just be himself, because the truth is, if he’s the Barack Obama the country has come to know and trust, he is going to do a great job,’’ she said.Continued...
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