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Expanding the Debate Exclusive: Third Party Candidates Join the Debate As Obama-Romney Spar

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Posted by Eli Dragen on Oct. 4, 2012

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As President Obama and Mitt Romney squared off for the first time on Wednesday night, Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier by pausing Obama and Romney's answers to get real-time responses from candidates Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party. Stein and Anderson joined Democracy Now!

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