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Obama keeps Romney on defensive in final presidential debate

President Obama seemed to use the authority of his office to put Republican challenger Mitt Romney on his heels in their final presidential debate Monday night, telling Romney he didn't understand foreign-policy problems as well as he does.

Romney, for his part, returned to a criticism that Obama had been a weak and vacillating actor on the world stage. But, at several points, Romney conceded that he would have done some of the same things that Obama did.

Read the full debate transcript.

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