Meeting for their third encounter 15 days before the election, Obama went on the attack right from the word go suggesting his opponent wanted to import "foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."

A snap poll taken after the Monday night debate on foreign policy divided into six 15-minute segments focusing on six topics at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida declared Obama the winner by a margin of 48 to 40 percent.