Not just a debate – a lie-detector test!

President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney are not only facing off in their first presidential debate – they’re both in the hot seat as they face an on-the-spot, involuntary lie detector test while answering some potentially provocative questions.

Americans for Limited Government said it has contracted with the company Voice Analysis Technology to determine whether the candidates are telling the truth during the debate by measuring their voice patterns and stress levels.

ALG President Bill Wilson said the lie detector test is “a break-through for the American people.”

“For the first time, within a few hours of a political debate, the American people will know if the candidates are telling the truth, and better be able to judge what promises are real, and which ones are nothing more than political pandering,” Wilson said.

The organization will publish results of the test within three hours of the end of the debate.

According to ALG, “Unlike a traditional polygraph which requires a suspect’s cooperation, and places numerous probes on the person’s body, voice analysis literally takes the words right out of a person’s mouth and based upon variations in speech patterns determines if statements being made are true or not with a high degree of accuracy.  With words like inaccurate, person uncertain, false statement, highly stressed and truth, the user’s computer screen literally explodes with data related to the veracity of the subject’s assertions.”

Meanwhile, two bombshell stories put Barack Obama’s radical former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in the spotlight ahead of the first presidential debate between the Republican and Democratic nominees tonight in Denver.

The Daily Caller posted video of racially charged remarks regarding the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina that Obama made in a June 2007 speech to a black audience at Hampton University in Virginia. During the speech, Obama praised Wright, who was in attendance, as a highly respected family confidant.

WND published the first article in a series in which members of the church the Obamas attended for two decades, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, claimed Wright ran a matchmaking service for homosexual members, including Barack Obama, known as the Down Low Club.

Today, as the final preparations are being made on the stage and auditorium, the candidates are in seclusion, preparing for an hour-and-a-half debate on domestic economic policy to be moderated by Jim Lehrer, executive editor of the PBS News Hour.

As debate preparations entered the final stages, a United Technologies/ National Journal poll showed Republican nominee Mitt Romney tied with Obama, each pulling in 47 percent of likely voters.

A national audience estimated to be in the range of 50 million will view tonight’s debate, scheduled for 9 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, with many potential voters seeing Romney live for the first time.

With both sides downplaying expectations, an advantage typically goes to the challenger, if for no other reason than Romney will stand on the stage before the nation as an equal to incumbent Obama.

The debate will be divided into six 15-minute segments, with the first, second and third segments devoted to discussing the economy. The fourth segment will feature health care. The role of government will be the topic for the fifth segment, and the final segment will focus on governing.

Neither candidate will address the audience directly, however, both will have a chance to make two-minute closing statements.

Obama won a coin toss to determine who will be introduced first. Romney won a toss enabling him to make his closing statement last.

Read other WND reports about issues in the the presidential race, and tonight’s debate:

Bombshell stories follow Obama to debate stage
Obama in 2005: U.S ‘indifferent’ toward blacks
Obama in 2002: ‘Rich’ Americans suppressing powerless
MSNBC captioning misleads?
Coulter: Liberals destroyed the black family
Mitt Romney ambushed in NEA trap
Income for poor plunges 7% under Obamanomics