Debates Pack More Punch Than Football
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CONCORD, N.H. -- The NFL playoffs kicked off Saturday night, but at the Barley House, an upscale tavern across the street from the state Capitol, it seemed as if the only games worth watching were the back-to-back Republican and Democratic presidential debates.
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Step outside the University of Alabama football complex this week and it wasn&#39;t hard to find distractions. The Mike Shula vs. Sylvester Croom debate.
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By Liz Marlantes | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. As the presidential candidates enter Friday night&#39;s critical second debate, they are appealing to a competing set of impulses among voters - the
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio] yesterday assessed the first presidential debate as ``enormous&#39;&#39; in impact and said Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] must move beyond attack
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The first verbal showdown between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, drew nearly 63 million viewers across seven broadcast and cable outlets, an increase of more than 26% over the turnout for the first presidential debate of the 2000 campaign.
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Campaigns and candidates like to think they can escape the laws of physics. So both the Bush and Kerry campaigns claim with equal certainty they have gained momentum out of last weekâs TV debates.
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Monday will deliver a milestone in presidential campaign history, as user-generated video drives a debate.
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Republican presidential candidates intensified their fight over which one has the true conservative credentials in a sometimes contentious debate Sunday night.
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ESPN's Monday night NFL game was watched by more viewers than any show in cable TV history except a 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.
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IN THE second presidential debate George Bush performed far better than he had in the first debate. This, however, doesn&#39;t mean the debate was a draw.
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There&#39;s an unusual urgency to the electoral process this year, reflected in higher attendance at campaign rallies, record viewership of presidential debates and soaring voter registration, not to mention an increase in heated debates over the dinner table
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TONIGHTâS debate will be a duel between two delusional optimists. It pits a man who regards recent events in Iraq as âsteady progressâ against a man who, while accusing the President
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Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been thrust into a social and political debate that transcends their candidacies.
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Divided results mean fight may go beyond Super Tuesday as questions arise over ideological path
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WASHINGTON _ User-generated video invades a presidential debate for the first time next month in an experiment in streaming democracy that its sponsors, CNN and YouTube, say will shake up a staid format and attract more participants.
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With less than a month to go before the election, President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry faced off for a second time in a town-hall style debate that was at once more aggressive and less formal than their last meeting.
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Imagine shaping your own presidential showdown, using candidates and their answers like building blocks that shatter the standard conventions of a televised political debate.