COLCHESTER, Vt. -
Now it's a sprint to the November election after the final of the three presidential debates Monday.
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney faced off and the issues were mostly about foreign policy.
At St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, students watched the last presidential debate.
They had big expectations for the president.
"He's really really going to have to up his game," says Cory Warren, college freshman.
And Governor Romney.
"I feel like he's going to bring what he feels is Obama's slip up in Libya," says Lindsay Shumway, college freshman.
The students registered instant feedback during the debate. Before it even started, most of the students say Obama would do a better job to handle an international crisis and it was foreign policy that was the focus of the final debate.
"Let's admit it is political theater," says Jeffrey Ayres, political science department chair.
Ayres says these debates have been important in changing the race, especially President Obama's poor performance in the first debate.
"I'm not sure there has been a televised debate going back to when they were first done in 1960 that made such a difference," says Ayres.
That debate propelled Romney forward in the polls.
For more proof, these 90-minute debates have been important, just talk to a first time presidential voter here.
"I was already biased in one direction but these have certainly provided a further stance on that," says Shannon Krehely, college freshman.
Most of the students said they were going to vote for President Obama.
