The Republican Debate: CQ Politics' Mosts and Bests
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The most striking thing about Wednesday's Des Moines Register Republican presidential debate - the last before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 â was the inclusion of Alan Keyes, whose powerful and sometimes astringent conservative rhetoric has drawn him attention but very few votes in a series of campaigns for President and U.S. Senate (Illinois and Maryland).  He has not been included in any major national debate until today.
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Lots of inaccuracies and exaggerations were tossed around at the Republican and Democratic debates at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Saturday night. A team of Washington Post fact checkers monitored the back-to-back 90-minute debates, and a live fact check was posted online at...
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The Republicans face off in Boca Raton in the final debate before next weekâs primary in Florida.
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The vice presidential debate between Sen. John Edwards and Vice President Dick Cheney featured numerous personal attacks. Here are some of the highlights.
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The nationally televised debate held in New Hampshire on Saturday night gave the six Republican presidential contenders who participated a chance to win some votes and change some minds in advance of a key primary in that state. But the fact that so much of the discussion among the candidates circled around one of them -- Mitt Romney -- suggested how high the stakes are for the former Massachusetts governor in Tuesday's contest.
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Perry Bacon on things we learned from the debate
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A campaign about Iraq and jobs abruptly shifts to the fraught territory of God, gays and guns. But will the values debate help Republicans this year?
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Mark Halperin grades the performances in the second Republican debate of the weekend in New Hampshire
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's argument as he woos restive religious and social conservatives comes down to this: "I have a record that can be trusted." His GOP rivals, he suggests, do not.
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Republican presidential candidates vied Sunday over who is the real conservative, ahead of an evening debate in Florida where they hoped to put their conservative credentials on display.
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Tonightâs Republican debate, which stats at 9 P.M., will feature the eight declared candidates. And then thereâs Fred Thompson.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in New Hampshire
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Republican presidential candidates are to hold a debate in Florida ahead of a key presidential primary on Tuesday.
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"Primary Mistake" (Sentinel, 212 pages. $25.95), by Steve Laffey: There are a lot of possible reasons Steve Laffey lost last year's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island against former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Laffey points the finger in one direction &#151; at his own party.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Republicans in New Hampshire.
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On Sen. John McCain's Wikipedia entry, the argument has been over whether he is a conservative, moderate or liberal Republican. A heated exchange on former senator John Edwards's page has centered on deleting any reference to his $400 haircuts. And perhaps the most contentious dispute of all -- a...
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Maybe it was the midday start time. Maybe it was the holiday season. But Wednesday's Republican presidential debate lacked the brutal street-fighting tone that has characterized previous meetings, as well as the past few days on the trail in Iowa.