De Anza College students who gathered to watch the second round of the 2012 presidential debate in the Multicultural room were engaged and absorbed by the aggressive attitudes of both candidates Gov. Mitt Romney and President  Barack Obama.
In contrast to his performance at the first debate, Obama brought a new demeanor to this match; the outcome resulted in a continuous banter of accusations, interruptions, and jabs at the opponents’ statements and ideas.  
One exchange of heated words was when Romney was asked how he planned on dealing with the issue of immigrants who currentl live in the U.S without green cards, and then the topic changed to investments.
“Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?  Have you looked at your pension?” asked Romney.  Obama replied,  “I’ve got to say.” and was interrupted by Romney repeating, “Mr. President, have you looked at your pensions?” which was met by Obama’s burning remark, “You know, I — I don’t look at my pension.  It’s not as big as yours so it doesn’t take as long.”
The showing in the Multicultural Center resulted in an interactive environment, filled with comments and exclamations towards the answers given by both candidates.
Hayley Benham-Archdeacon, 18 and a political science major, said she wasn’t surprised to see Obama come back a lot stronger in this debate. She said “Obama struck the balance between good political theater and strong academic arguments.”
Ahmad Ashufta, 22, said both parties took the offense, but believed that Obama took this round because he stuck to the topics discussed.
“Obama in this debate stuck to the point a little more”, whereas Romney evaded answering certain questions and, “Skirted around them.”
In the thousands of words that were spoken in the debate, it was four words that went viral: “binders full of women.”
In response to a question on gender play inequality, Romney stated that he went to a number of women’s gorups and they brought him “binders full of women.”
The quote did not elicit any reaction from the students at the showing, but instantly became the subject of Twitter hastags and Tumblr posts.