Candidates to woo middle class at debate
Photo credit: Getty Images | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, and U.S. President Barack Obama, greet one another at Magness Arena moments before the start of their first debate at the University of Denver in Denver. (Oct. 3, 2012)
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The Commission on Presidential Debates picked the right place for Tuesday's showdown between President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney.
Smack-dab in the middle of middle-class suburbs.
Both parties are playing to the suburbs, as they have since 1988, when Americans in suburban centers -- which, to be fair, includes most Americans -- emerged as the primary deciders of presidential...
