Spinning Out Clear Winner Even Before Debate Begins
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Both campaigns have exhorted their supporters to flood the media with messages declaring a winner in the debates, hoping to influence the post-debate spin wars.
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A last-minute flap blew up on Thursday at the presidential debate site over timer lights on the candidates' podiums, in a sign of how important each campaign saw every detail of the encounter.
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The assignment: go forth and spin. The objective: win the battle of the post-debate polls. The Bush-Cheney campaign is urging supporters to go online after Tuesday's debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards in hopes of defeating what it calls the "Kerry campaign spin machine."
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The polls are in, and the results are clear: Viewers think John Kerry won the first presidential debate. Does that mean the Democrat will win the election?
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The worst case scenario for Sen. Hillary Clinton in last nightÃ¢ÂÂs New Hampshire debate would be that she did not win or lose ground against her Democratic presidential rivals. And that means victory for a frontrunner in any political campaign.
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Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards both accomplished what they needed to do in their one and only debate on Tuesday night.
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I sure picked an interesting time to move across the Atlantic. Regardless of the outcome, I knew much debate would ensue after this month's U.S. Presidential election.
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IN THE run-up to tomorrowâs first presidential debate between George W Bush and Senator John Kerry, I came across an interesting speech the other day.
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TAMPA, United States : Each claiming victory in their first debate, President George W. Bush and Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry courted voters in key up-for-grabs states 32 days before the election.
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&quot;Although this debate proved to be the most entertaining, the candidates&#39; contentions have surpassed repetitive and reached mind-numbing.
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IN THE FIRST presidential debate, George W. Bush asserted that he&#39;ll win reelection because he knows how to lead -- and but for an absent prefix, the president might have been revealing his closing-stretch strategy.
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The winner of the first one-on-one debate between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama? The Democratic Party.
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A scene from the debate. The final evaluation of which man won will, to a large extent, depend on the comments of the âspin doctorsâ.
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The presidential contest is assumed to be a cash cow for early voting states. If so, it probably will produce skim milk at best.
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The presidential race is too close to project a winner right now, but that doesn't mean it will be too close on Election Day to prevent a landslide.
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President Bush and Senator John Kerry hit the trail today after a debate that did not appear to give either an clear edge.
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It's a classic pre-debate dance, maybe as important as the matchup itself: lower expectations for your candidate's performance and jab the other guy while you're at it. While President Bush and Democrat John Kerry remained secluded half a country apart on Sunday in preparation for their prime-time showdown Thursday, representatives for each side employed their own double-barreled debate strategy.