From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.The presidential candidates will spar for a second time tonight,but this time in a town-hall setting, taking questions from voters.NPR's Ron Elving says each man is looking to make big gains at New York's Hofstra University.This represents the best opportunity. President Obama is going to have to make up for orbounds back from his performance in the first debate on October 3rd which cost him the momentum.Mitt Romney's challenge in this debate is different from the first debate.It is not an election about being seen on the same stage with the incumbent president,the commander in chief. It's more about the relationship he has with these questioners.And he is going to have to speak to them directly and he is going to have tothe kind of empathy and human warmth that people look for in a president. NPR's Ron Elving.The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing all Ohio voters tocast ballots in the final weekend before election day,handing State Democrats a big victory. More from NPR's Pam Fessler.Ohio officials want to restrict early in-person voting in the final weekend of the campaign to military voters,arguing that local officials were too busy preparing for election day to handle a big turnout.The Obama re-election campaign and State Democrats saidthat was unfair to other voters and a federal appeals court agreed.The U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to block the lower court's rulingopened the way for all state voters to cast ballots on the Saturday,Sunday, and Monday, before election day.Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has now directed every county in the key battleground state
