Second debate created easier decision for some
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When Natasha Thomas tuned into the presidential debate Friday night, she was hoping the candidates would address issues important to her as a single mother: health care, day care, education.
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WASHINGTON - Leading into Friday night&#39;s second presidential debate, the poll numbers have flipped. The latest results from an Associated Press poll give John Kerry a slim lead over President Bush.
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Will the reaction to an unpopular decision be any different this time?.
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There is more consensus than disagreement in the parties over tax, health and Iraq proposals, though the presidential candidates do disagree over means, priorities and each otherâs sincerity.
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Tuesday night's vice presidential debate didn't have the ratings gusto of last week's top-ticket tussle, but its 101 minutes outperformed the lone debate in 2000.
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They go gentle at this week's debate, but attacks are likely to intensify as primaries near.
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What might seem a mundane debate over health policy has taken on outsized importance because it is one of the few substantive differences between the two leading Democratic candidates.
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The debate is so politically loaded that it's tough to tell who's being straight about the real areas of progress and how breakthroughs can be achieved. TIME sorts it out
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: While one party bemoans its choice of candidates, the other has raised little in the way of political debate
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The day after the Senate failed to move on a proposal for a broad change in immigration law, it was a time to take stock of the debate.
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Underscoring their different backgrounds, Sen. John Edwards [related, bio] used simple words to break down his answers into easily followed arguments in last night&#39;s debate, while
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In Iowa's unpredictable Democratic  presidential scramble, a voter's second choice can be as  important as the first -- and ultimately could make the  difference in a tight race.
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For most of last night's debate on CNN, the Democratic presidential candidates did what you would expect: They argued with one another and tried to separate themselves from their opponents on issues ranging from Iraq to health care to gay marriage.
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Looking solely at the arguments and debating skills, most commentators will argue that the third presidential debate came out evenly with the winner determined by the individualâs determination about the facts.
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WASHINGTON If past presidential election debates are a guide, public re- action to the debate Thursday near Miami will not be fixed in people&#39;s minds in the hours immediately after the 90-minute encounter, but instead will evolve for days, in possibly
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NEW YORK - Friday's rematch between President Bush and John Kerry proved to be a livelier affair, and a more revealing show, than their first debate.    The big difference, of course, was the town-hall format that surrounded the two candidates with 140 voters, some of whom got to ask the questions they had brought...
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MILWAUKEE -- It was the morning of the day after the election, and the results still weren&#39;t clear, but one thing was certain, it takes a special kind of individual to want to be in this pressure cooker, what with the scrutiny, the second guessing, the