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Tonight's debate will be an important moment in this election. The  pundits will have a lot to say about it, but they don't have the  final word -- you do.
So if you think President Obama does a good job tonight, say so.  Post about it on Facebook, tweet about it, email your friends, and  write about it on your Tumblr if you're into that sort of thing .  We'll have stuff on barackobama.com/debate before, during, and after  the debate that will help you talk about the President's  accomplishments and respond to Mitt Romney's attacks, so get online  early for coverage of the whole debate. Stick around afterwards, too  -- Vice President Biden will be doing an exclusive post-debate  livestream with supporters on the site.
I also recorded a short video to talk about some of the issues that  will come up tonight, so check it out, and share it with others  before tonight's debate:
 The three most important issues I expect to come up during this  debate are jobs, taxes, and the deficit. Here's a quick cheat sheet  about the facts on each:
Jobs If I were a betting woman, I could wager you $X that Romney  will claim that he has a plan to create 12 million jobs over the  next four years. If he does, it might sound like a bold promise, but  it isn't -- independent economists project that we're going to  create that many jobs anyway on the path that we're on. Those same  economists have also studied Romney's proposed policies, and they  agree that they would actually slow our recovery, and cost more than  a million American jobs.
Taxes Romney has a $X trillion tax plan that would give millionaires and  billionaires huge tax cuts. But independent experts say the only way  to pay for that sort of plan is to raise taxes on the middle class,  increasing taxes for families with children by an average of $X.  Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan deny this, but when Ryan was asked this  weekend to explain how it would work, he said he didn't have time to  explain the math. We'll see if Mitt Romney finds some time in  tonight's 90-minute debate to tell us specifically how he can avoid  raising taxes on middle-class families and still pay for another  $X tax cut for multimillionaires.
The deficit Tonight, Mitt Romney will tell you that he's going to cut the  deficit. But he won't tell you how he'll manage to do that while  keeping his promises to not to raise a penny in new revenue. Without  raising revenue, Romney wants to pass a $X trillion tax cut favoring  millionaires and billionaires and add $X trillion in new defense  spending that military leaders didn't ask for. How does all that add  up to cutting the deficit? It doesn't -- like President Clinton  said, it's just simple arithmetic.
Getting the facts out is more important than ever tonight -- make  sure you have President Obama's back, and please, spread the word:
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Stephanie
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