UTICA, NY (WKTV) - About a dozen people watched Thursday's vice presidential debate televised at Mohawk Valley Community College. The room with a hoisted big projection screen tuned to the debate was filled with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.

In St. Louis, Missouri, Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, their party's nominees for vice president, participated in their only debate of the campaign moderated by PBS's Gwen Ifill.

There were M.V.C.C. students, professors, and working people with all different backgrounds and all different opinions glued to the debate action on television.

"I feel that both of them have a lot of the same opinions on certain things that we didn't think they did," said Kelly McVicar, an M.V.C.C. student. 

"I would like to believe both candidates could provide change," said M.V.C.C. Professor Jon Meeter.

Thursday's vice presidential debate was the second one open to the public this year, the first being the presidential debate last Friday. M.V.C.C plans on showing the remaining two presidential debates at the college in the coming weeks.