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The Top Ten Lines of the Hofstra Presidential Debate
October 16, 2008 at 12:21 amAaron Zelinsky posts the “top 10″ lines from the debate, starting with Schieffer: “Are each of you tonight willing to sit at this table and say, to each other’s face, what your campaigns and the people in your campaigns have said about each other?” Among the other 9, include McCain’s remark: “Mr. Ayers, I don’t care about an old, washed-up terrorist” and Obama’s assertion: “Even Fox News disputes it, and that doesn’t happen very often when it comes to accusations about me.”
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Live Blog from the Yale Law School
October 15, 2008 at 9:22 pmAaron Zelinsky shares, “I’m live blogging the debates from Yale Law School at an event co-hosted by the Yale Law Democrats and Yale Law Republicans. Please refresh the page for updates,” posting at 9:14 PM EST: “Obama: ‘I have proposed a net spending cut.’ Schieffer: ‘aren’t you going to have to cut some of these programs.’”
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Presidential Debate Live Blog From Yale Law School
October 7, 2008 at 9:35 pmAaron Zelinsky shares, “I’m live blogging the debates from Yale Law School at an event co-hosted by the Yale Law Democrats and Yale Law Republicans,” noting at 9:21 PM “McCain, highlighting his campaign finance reform (Feingold); environment (Lieberman). ‘Lets look at our records as well as our rhetoric.’”
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Vice Presidential Debate Live Blog
October 2, 2008 at 9:42 pmAaron Zelinsky notes, “Biden is going after McCain hard. That’s the right thing to do, as we speculated earlier. On the off camera shots, Palin seems to be doing some writing and prepping a response. Palin is now going in for the populist lines as well.”
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Palin the Debater
October 1, 2008 at 4:16 pmAaron Zelinsky asserts, “Having watched the gubernatorial roundtable from the 2006 Alaska election, I believe Sarah Palin is a more formidable debate opponent than people expect.”
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Looking Back (to Debate 1) and Forward (to VP Debate)
September 28, 2008 at 6:33 pmWilliam Benoit provides an empirical analysis of the statements made in the debate and comparative statics on past VP debates, in which he notes: “Content analysis reveals that most of the statements in this debate were positive (53%), followed by attacks (39%) and defenses (9%). Historically, in 1960 and 1976-2004, presidential debates are similar in tone….”
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The Top Ten Lines
September 28, 2008 at 12:41 pmAaron Zelinsky posts a total of ten lines from each candidate and the moderator, noting that Sen. John McCain’s line: “Are you afraid I couldn’t hear him?” ranked as number one and Sen. Barack Obama’s ranked as number two: “It doesn’t mean that you invite them over for tea one day.”
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Tracking the Good Lines
September 26, 2008 at 10:18 pmAaron Zelinsky notes the candidates’ best remarks as they are spoken: “Obama with a good line about threats to North Korea and ’some songs about bombing Iran.’”
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