From Obama and Romney, a sharper clash at second debate

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | 9:50 p.m. CDT; updated 11:38 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, October 16, 2012

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — An aggressive President Barack Obama accused challenger Mitt Romney of peddling a "sketchy deal" to fix the U.S. economy and playing politics with the deadly terrorist attack in Libya in a Tuesday night debate crackling with energy and emotion just three weeks before the election.

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