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Debates to be televised LIVE during prime time. Look for
broadcast repeats overnight & weekends.
1st PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE:
Location - Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford
Host: PBS NewsHour Anchor Jim Lehrer
DEBATE FOCUS: FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Reactions to Debate #1:
CBS:
Obama benefits most
FOX:
No Game Changing Moment
 Vice-PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
2nd
6pm
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Host: Gwen Ifill, Managing Editor of PBS' Washington Week
DEBATE FOCUS: DOMESTIC & FOREIGN POLICIES
Format:
Eight 10-minute issue segments set up by host.
Candidates respond.
Last five minutes open discussion of issues. Candidates can
converse with one another.
2nd
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE:
TUESDAY, OCT. 7th 6pm ( MCOM 139 will
watch in class )
Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.
Host: Tom Brokaw, NBC Special Correspondent
DEBATE FOCUS: No specific topic or area designated.
Format: Town Hall
setting...Audience of undecided voters selected by Gallup
organization.
Questions from the audience and the internet.
*Will be watched
and afterward analyzed by MCOM 139 class*
3rd
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE:
TUESDAY, OCT. 14th
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Host: Bob Schieffer, Correspondent & Host of CBS' Face
The Nation
DEBATE FOCUS: DOMESTIC & ECONOMIC POLICY
Format: Like the first
presidential debate, eight 110-minute issue segments set up
by host.
Candidates have two minutes in each segment to respond. Last
five minutes open discussion
of the issues. Candidates can converse with one
another.
Only debate where, at the end, each candidate gets a 90
second closing statement.
What to Expect This Year
- CNN
Independent Ralph Nader on Presidential Debates
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Abraham Lincoln
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Richard Nixon
