Events

Topic: Domestic policy

Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time

 Location: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado

Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates

Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

 Moderator: Jim Lehrer (Host of News Hour on PBS)

The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate.

The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic.