Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/romney-and-obama-focus-on-policy-details-in-first-debate Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Transcript In the first presidential debate, held in Denver, Colo., and moderated by NewsHour’s Jim Lehrer, Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama presented their cases primarily on domestic policy issues, including tax cuts or increases, job creation, education improvements and health care reform. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.