After a few laughs, Romney, Obama back to the fray
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President Barack Obama speaks at the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York and attended by Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)