After months of mocking each other and stating their stances on issues separately during rallies and speeches, the 2012 Presidential debate will finally take place tonight.
On one side you have one candidate who is willing to say anything he feels voters want to hear despite if it is actually possible. Meanwhile the other is continuing to promise change if he's allowed four more years in office.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney opposes virtually everything President Barack Obama stands for, and has gone to great lengths to voice how he would do things differently. Romney is going to stress to viewers his opinions to try winning the debate on topics such as "Obamacare not being necessary" and opposing same-sex marriage.
Obama meanwhile doesn't need to sell himself to the nation as much as Romney does, considering he has been in office for four years already. What he needs to do outline his plan of attack for the next four years and defend his accomplishments as President thus far.
Most of the nation is divided on which candidate they are going to vote for or even believe more than the other, but the deciding factor in the election may just be how each person feels about the auto industry.
Don't be surprised if Obama spends a great deal of time talking about the federal bailout of the auto industry which he commissioned. People who work at American car companies such as Chrysler and General Motors owe their jobs to Obama after he bailed out both companies from a financial meltdown.
Obama took money from the Wall Street bailout fund and used it to help both companies, believing it was important for the nation that both companies remain influential in the auto world. In doing so, Obama saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, and since then it has been considered perhaps his most impressive accomplishment behind only finding and killing Osama Bin Laden.
The President has also helped the auto industry by enforcing sanctions on Chinese tires that received unsuitable export subsides. This move has been widely considered more controversial than the bailout, but so far it has helped save thousands of U.S. tire-building jobs around the country.
Mitt Romney however will most likely spend as little time possible on the subject of the auto industry. He has already voiced his displeasure with Obama bailing out U.S. auto companies, and even stated that Obama should have "let Detroit go bankrupt". This is quite a statement coming from the son of a former American Motors CEO who claims to love driving many different types of U.S. cars.
He has also stated before that he is fine with American auto makers producing cars and parts overseas to help save money. This would not only decrease the amount of jobs in the U.S. but could end the auto companies that Obama spent all that money on bailing out.
The debate will take place tonight on most basic cable channels.
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