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Presidential Debate #1 LIVE

At 9 p.m. tonight President Barack Obama will square off against former-Gov. Mitt Romney in the first of three debates.

The debate will be available below, with a countdown clock appearing until the start of coverage at 8:30 p.m.

This is a domestic policy debate, which will include the economy, health care, taxes, spending and energy.

During the debate you can get fact checking from PolitiFact. There will also be live blogging and fact checking from The Caucus blog from The New York Times.

I will be live tweeting the debate from @poozer87 and the occasional bits from @GazettePolitics.

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