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On a Saturday 50 years ago, NBC correspondent Sander Vanocur was told there was going to be a presidential debate on Monday. And he'd better start thinking [...]

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Second, they're remembered for being the first televised presidential debates in American history. In reality, they marked the first time in our history [...]

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As a result, Nicolau remarks, disagreements voiced at the presidential debates tend to be relatively minor in nature. To the extent that disagreement is [...]

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However, Nader was not arrested, and later the Commission on Presidential Debates sent him a written apology for having barred him from the audience. [...]

11 Jun 2010 Colombian Presidential candidates Juan Manuel Santos and Antanas Mockus clashed on the topics of corruption and justice, during a live [...]

12 Apr 2010 Listen to Lynn Sweet on the BBC "Americana" show discuss famous U.S. presidential debates--as Britian hold its first ever televised debates [...]

15 Oct 2010 Get breaking political news of President Barack Obama's White House and the latest Video: Jake Tapper moderates Colorado Senate debate. [...]

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I recall watching Obama during one of the presidential debates, in which he calmly and coolly defended his vote in the Illinois senate against providing doctors to protect the lives of aborted babies born alive. [...]

Democratic presidential candidates faced questions directly from voters on Monday in the first CNN/YouTube debate.The lights and cameras were focused on the eight candidates, but it was the. [...]

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Nixon meet in a series of four debates, the first to be televised. An estimated 60 to 70 million people watch -- a third of the entire US population. Another 15 million listen on radio. Policy differences aside, Kennedy appears youthful [...]

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Opening and closing statements, usually a chance for candidates to recite talking points uninterrupted for a few minutes, were omitted, and moderator Tom Brokaw — a veteran of several debates, including the second presidential debate in [...]

As a precaution last night due to readership that was 5X larger than last weeks' Presidential debate, we held back any new readers at different times so that we could ensure the tens of thousands of readers and the writers using [...]

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Brokaw, 70, covered Brown's first run for office 41 years ago as a young reporter in Los Angeles, and has moderated presidential debates since 1976. While he lives in Montana he closely follows politics in the Golden State from afar and [...]

The final Kennedy-Nixon showdown featured perhaps the most duplicitous moment in a half century of presidential debates. The United States had just an announced a trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Cuba -- sanctions, [...]

This morning the New York Times did a piece on an exhibit launched this past Friday in Berlin at the German Historical Museum. The exhibit is called “Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime” and offers a fascinating look into what may be called the ordinariness, even the everydayness, of the fascis [...]

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The League of Women Voters ran presidential debates until 1988, when the Democratic and Republican parties, unhappy with the LWV's inclusion of independent [...]

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Joe the Plumber, who found his name repeated again and again by Barack Obama and John McCain during one of the 2008 presidential debates, has somehow [...]

For the symposium on Bruce Ackerman, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic Stephen Gardbaum Bruce Ackerman’s The Decline and Fall of the American Republic is a profoundly important constitutional wake-up call. It presents a powerful, multi-layered, yet highly accessible argument that the bod [...]

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Perhaps the most interesting resume associated with the ill-fated Haitian presidential debates is that of one of the partners of Justin.tv that was responsible for web casting the event. According to Alsop Louie Partners website, [...]

Independent Sixth District congressional candidate Jeff Vanke released a Contract with Western Virginia today at an event in Roanoke – highlighting a promise to voters similar to one made by nine-term incumbent Bob Goodlatte 18 years ago. “One point of my contract is to promise, on my Eagle Scout’s [...]

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"That's a lie. You know that's a lie. I never said it." That was Republican Linda McMahon going after Democrat Richard Blumenthal this week as the Connecticut Senate rivals shared a debate stage. Afterward, he insisted she was the one playing "fast and loose with the facts." [...]

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi watching the San Francisco Giants play at AT&T park in San Francisco, October 7, 2010. OPEN LETTER TO NANCY PELOSI by Matt Gonzalez October 12, 2010 Representative Nancy Pelosi California’s 8th Congressional District Washington D.C. Office 235 Cannon H.O.B. Washington, DC [...]

BREAKING! Matt Gonzalez Endorses John Dennis in Open Letter to Pelosi THIS IS HUGE!!!!! (and thanks to DP owner, Michael Nystrom for this article) Editor’s Note: Mr. Gonzalez [2008 vice presidential candidate with running mate Ralph Nader, and prominent San Francisico Democratic / Green / Inde [...]

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With new presidential debates in the offing and the media ratcheting up the intensity of its campaign coverage Dilma has an opportunity to soften her image and project the female political voice Brazilian women want to elect. [...]

Government /= Adulthood Quite while back I quoted one Jeffery Gardener from an April 27, 2005 Albuquerque Journal column, "Save Us From Us". In it Gardener said: During the 1992 presidential debates, there was a moment of absurdity that so defied the laws of absurdity that even today when I recall i [...]