At Debate, G.O.P. Race Becomes More Personal
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The Republican debate stood out for the intensity and personal nature of the exchanges between the candidates.
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With the NFL season at the midway point, the debates have begun about the races for the major awards -- most valuable player, coach of the year and rookie of the year.
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Hillary Clinton,  Barack Obama and six other Democratic presidential contenders  wrestled with questions of race, war and gender on Monday in a  debate starring a parade of questions posed in YouTube videos.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are embroiled in a racially tinged dispute just as large numbers of black voters prepare to get their first say in the Democratic presidential campaign. Clinton, on defense over comments that she and her husband made regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and Obama's fitness for the White House, tried to turn the tables on her top primary rival.
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A number of assertions in the latest Republican presidential debate went unchallenged because candidates spent more time criticizing Democrats from afar than challenging Â and correcting Â each other face to face.
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With one debate down and two to go, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are entering a critical new phase of a race that has been recharged and, in some ways, reframed.
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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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The tense VP matchup has raised the stakes for Friday's presidential debate.
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A sigh, a glance at a wristwatch, a 5 o'clock shadow. After all the weighty words are passed back and forth in a presidential debate, it is often a simple gesture or a quick quip or a difference in appearance that remains in the memory.
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In their duel of wits and words, the two &quot;seconds&quot; in the race for the White House sometimes appeared more evenly matched than the two top-of-the-ticket contenders who debated last week.
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This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must stifle the smirk, for instance, and Kerry must cut short his rhetorical rambling.
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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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In Wednesday's debate, domestic issues, rather than Iraq and the war on terror, take center stage.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and six other Democratic presidential contenders wrestled with questions of race, war and gender on Monday in a debate starring a parade of questions posed in YouTube videos.
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A growing number of foreign-born blacks have inspired a quiet debate over who can claim the term "African-American."
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In the long-running debate on affirmative action, Scott E. Page, a professor at the University of Michigan, is a fresh voice.
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By Vanessa Delgado, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 15--In a debate Thursday night, a modern political rarity took place: Political candidates were not able to rebut each other's answers, and decorum and order ran the show.