Students, IOP fellows, and community members congregate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum in anticipation for the first presidential debate by President Obama and Governor Romney, held on October 3, 2012 at the University of Denver.
The crowd watches as Romney flashes a smile during the first presidential debate on domestic policy.
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With the stakes higher for both candidates, tangible tenseness filled the room during the watch party for the second presidential debate, held at Hofstra University in New York on October 16.
People watch, discuss, and tweet their thoughts during the second presidential debate watch party as the two candidates clash in a town hall format.
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A woman laughs during Mitt Romney’s comments about his “binders full of women” comment during the third presidential debate, held at Lynn University in Florida on October 22, 2012.
The constant clash of ideas often elicited visceral responses from the crowd as the two candidates discussed American foreign policy.
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In an October 17 event for the Conversations with Kirkland series, Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University and author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, talks about her experience as president, from the complexities of developing policies for the university to the experience of being interrogated by Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.