Doug Cohen: Give The Youth A Real Debate – The GW Hatchet

Give Us A Real Debate
US President Barack Obama (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) participate in the second presidential debate, the only held in a townhall format, at the David Mack Center at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012, moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) participate in the second presidential debate, the only held in a townhall format, at the David Mack Center at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012, moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

In the first two presidential debates, students have had only one chance to ask the candidates about the issues.

The lone voice representing the youth vote was 20-year-old Jeremy Epstein, a student at Adelphi University, who asked President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney at the second debate Tuesday how they could assure him he would be able to support himself financially after graduation.

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