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**LIVE THREAD** Second Presidential Debate - Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama (9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern)
C-SPAN ^ | 10-16-12 | Live Thread

Posted on 10/16/2012 2:13:41 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat

Edited on 10/16/2012 3:04:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

You can watch the debate online here: http://www.youtube.com/politics?feature=inp-hp-ype-26

Town Hall debate.

Admin Moderator notes: (We changed the main link to C-SPAN from You Tube as it is more reliable.)

The debate can also be watched at these links:

Places to watch the debate:
http://live.foxnews.com/
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
http://www.politico.com/livestream/



TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012debates; debate2012; presdebate2live; presidentialdebate2
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To: Chickensoup

Hot Air was good for me during the VP’s


301 posted on 10/16/2012 4:55:28 PM PDT by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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To: tapatio
Excellent pic !

pre-debate hotel ?

302 posted on 10/16/2012 4:55:38 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Revolting cat!

Yeah, Obama won. And it hasn’t even started yet!


303 posted on 10/16/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: All

I’m hoping that Romney comes out of this debate just holding his own. Since Obama was so miserable in the first debate, he will probably pick up a couple of points with even a mediocre performance.

I am looking for Romney to really shine, though, in the last debate on foreign policy.


304 posted on 10/16/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by PAR
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To: onyx

Hey Onyx, long time. My nerves are shot. Need a pep talk. Can’t help but think that this is make or break time.


305 posted on 10/16/2012 4:55:56 PM PDT by sofaman (An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Lucky9teen

That is just too Funny! They both look so wrong


306 posted on 10/16/2012 4:56:26 PM PDT by jusduat (on the mercy of the Lord alone.)
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To: Cboldt

friend in Sanford felt it pretty good and said it really scared her cat!


307 posted on 10/16/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, we can give it a try. If there’s a chance that hundreds of people trying to post to the same thread at the same time is causing a deadlock on the db, it’s worth a shot to try to split the load. John says the load avg on the web server was low, the cpu’s were not busy and the db sever was mostly idle last time, but we couldn’t get any throughput. Could be a logjam in the db caused by record locks making it hard to get anything in or out.

Check with John about the DB schema before you try that. Depending on how it is organized, more threads may make it worse.

If it is a lock contention problem, then you need to look deeper into the database performance statistics, and especially the I/O (reads/sec and writes/sec) on the database device.

If it is indeed I/O contention, one thing that would help a great deal is:

[imagine Keanu/Neo's voice]

RAM. Lots of RAM.

If the database isn't using it, the O/S will use it for file caching. Any I/O operation that is avoided will be performed much faster -- as in orders of magnitude.

It isn't unusually for me to see database servers with 64GB of RAM. It makes a huge difference.

308 posted on 10/16/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: Jim Robinson

Would putting the Freepathon on hold for a short while help a tad?
(I don’t like asking this question)


309 posted on 10/16/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: nutmeg
I honestly can't remember the last time we had a decent live thread going during an important event like a presidential debate.

'08? ;)

310 posted on 10/16/2012 4:56:44 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Lucky9teen

Classic...Classic...Thanks!


311 posted on 10/16/2012 4:57:41 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: alisasny

I’m about 15 minutes from there too


312 posted on 10/16/2012 4:57:59 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: convocation

Welcome to FR !


             behave

313 posted on 10/16/2012 4:58:02 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: onyx

314 posted on 10/16/2012 4:58:04 PM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: onyx

Well, gonna try to watch the debate here! Prolly no luck though! Hey, young lady!!!


315 posted on 10/16/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: StarFan

Crowley and CNN have also preselected the people from the audience that get to ask questions.


316 posted on 10/16/2012 4:58:55 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Yep, I knew I really wouldn’t be able to tolerate the Obama-Romney debates. But I did expect the Ryan-Biden one to be well worth catching. However, after a few short minutes of that jackass Biden, I just had to turn it off. Literally finding I can’t stomach any of that crap anymore. And it goes double for all the news-punditry that follows. The more I see of it, from the slickster politician spin-meisters to the snotty media talking-head elites, the more hatred I feel towards them all, along with the whole current culture and state of affairs.


317 posted on 10/16/2012 4:59:24 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
BTW, do images, pictures have an effect on slowing down a thread or is that irrelevant?

It doesn't have any effect on the FR servers. Those are loaded from the source, either the original one or wherever the poster uploaded them.

Your page rendering might be delayed a bit if you have a slow connection to the Internet. But, the part from FR is only a few lines of text.

318 posted on 10/16/2012 4:59:35 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: RKBA Democrat

PRAY FOR MITT RIGHT NOW


319 posted on 10/16/2012 4:59:53 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: RKBA Democrat
Which one will appear at tonights debate?

320 posted on 10/16/2012 4:59:59 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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