Chicago Reactions To The Second 2012 Presidential Debate (TWEETS)

Chicagoans React To The Second Presidential Debate

On Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney faced off in a heated town hall-style debate at Hofstra University, the second of three showdowns between the two ahead of the Nov. 6 election.

After Obama was criticized over a low-energy and somewhat passive performance in the first debate, the president came out swinging in the Tuesday debate, which included a number of memorable moments such as an intense exchange over the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and an insta-meme comment from Romney about "binders full of women."

The president's hometown also got a brief shout out, during a conversation over gun control legislation.

"[I]n my home town of Chicago, there's an awful lot of violence and they're not using AK-47s. They're using cheap handguns," Obama commented Tuesday.

We collected a series of Chicagoans' Twitter reactions to the debate below.

Romney and Obama will face off in the final 2012 presidential debate on Monday.

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