Live Blog: The Third U.S. Presidential Debate

Thank you for joining us for the third and final U.S. presidential debate. Stay with VOA as we continue our coverage of the race for the White House.

Don't think debate will change much.Obama forceful at times while Romney made bid as moderate.Slight advan. Obama.#debates @voa_news

— Jim Malone (@JMaloneVOA) October 23, 2012

Romney seemed more interested in coming across as a sober and careful commander in chief than a bellicose alt to President #NBCPolitics

— David Gregory (@davidgregory) October 23, 2012

Update: 6.5 million tweets tonight in the last of the 2012 #debates.

— Twitter Government (@gov) October 23, 2012

Some instant reaction from the Twitterverse

Glancing down Twitter. Shocker: All Ds think O won, all Rs think R won.

— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) October 23, 2012

On Fox News, Joe Trippi calls this debate "the big hug" with Romney matching most of Obama's foreign policy

— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) October 23, 2012

Both candidates spent some time on the attack and both spent some moments on the defensive. No decisive exchanges or statements.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 23, 2012

The President has edge in FP debate bc he's President, & challenger has the edge bc it makes him look Presidential & also we have no idea

— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) October 23, 2012

We made a mistake in our entry about President Obama's closing statement. We wrote that he said education, when in fact he said energy. We regret this error.