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Mitt Romney raised eyebrows during the presidential debate Tuesday night when he claimed that as governor of Massachusetts, he had been so dismayed at the lack of female cabinet candidates that he sent women’s groups out to find them.

“I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ and they brought us whole binders full of women,” he said.

In fact, Romney did not direct women’s groups to bring him female candidates, Boston Pheonix reporter David Bernstein points out. A non-partisan collaboration of women’s groups called Massachusetts Government Appointments Project (MassGAP) was responsible for the effort in 2002, when the group’s leaders realized that women held only 30 percent of the top appointed positions in the state.

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President Barack Obama made a strong case during Tuesday night’s debate for how his administration would create “not just jobs,” but “good-paying jobs.” Obama said the jobs would be founded on the advanced manufacturing projects and education initiatives he would enact in a second term.

But Obama’s record on high-paying jobs leaves much to be desired.

A recent study from the National Employment Law Project revealed that about 60 percent of the jobs created since the start of the Great Recession in 2008 were low-wage jobs. By comparison, most of the jobs lost during the same period were middle-wage jobs, the kind Obama was likely referring to when he spoke of “good-paying jobs.”

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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Much of the talk in the spin room following Tuesday night’s presidential debate centered on the role played by moderator Candy Crowley, who stopped candidates from running over time and, in the debate’s most memorable moment, corrected Mitt Romney on his criticism of President Barack Obama’s handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.

The Romney campaign’s top spokesman, Eric Ferhnstrom, said that it wasn’t his tact to “complain about the refs.”

“I think Candy was dandy,” he added.

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The debate is over and HuffPost readers have spoken. We spent the evening asking debate watchers for their opinions –- in real time — and we’ve got the results.

Below you can see how some of our readers reacted to answers from President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney during the course of Tuesday night’s debate.

The survey was conducted in collaboration with Event Method and allowed for immediate feedback on the candidate’s performances. The participants, who responded to an open call earlier on Tuesday, were polled via a smartphone app. Questions for the survey were developed in real time by HuffPost during the course of the debate.

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In perhaps the biggest pivot of the presidential debate Tuesday night, President Barack Obama turned a question about gun violence into an answer about education. The twist is especially notable in a campaign year when schools have gotten little play.

After saying “we haven’t had a chance to talk about education much,” Obama pointed to a wiggly point in education policy, while not directly naming it: the Common Core State Standards. “It is very important to understand that the reforms we’ve put in place, working with 46 governors around the country, are seeing schools … starting to succeed.”

While it’s true that 46 governors have agreed to adopt (mostly) higher common educational standards, known as the Common Core, the Obama campaign is trying to have it both ways on this point. Mitt Romney has said that he wouldn’t fund the Common Core, and that the Obama administration’s funding and incentivizing of the standards overly prescriptive. At an education debate Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, Romney education advisor Martin West made that case. But Obama advisor Jon Schnur said while the White House has stressed “college and career-ready standards,” it hasn’t forced states’ hands on the Common Core.

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