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Crowley to moderate presidential debate
Updated 7:50 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 14, 2012
WASHINGTON - For the first time in two decades, a woman has been tapped to moderate a presidential debate.
CNN's Candy Crowley will moderate one of three October debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS News will moderate the other two debates.
Lehrer will question the candidates during the first debate Oct. 3 at the University of Denver, focused on domestic topics.
Crowley's Oct. 16 debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., will use a town-hall format, allowing undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization to directly question the candidates. Foreign and domestic policy questions will both be fair game.
Another female journalist, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, will moderate an Oct. 11 debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky., between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
The debate season will draw to a close on Oct. 22 with a foreign policy-focused debate moderated by Schieffer at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., a crucial swing state.
When Crowley takes the stage, it will be the first time a woman has moderated a presidential debate since ABC News' Carole Simpson, who refereed a 1992 debate between President George H.W. Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.