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Thursday's debate will be a far-more-reasonable one hour, total, with Strange and Moore speaking in alternating five-minute blocks.

Longtime Virginia Del. Robert G. Marshall is refusing to participate in debates or candidate forums in his hotly contested race against Democrat Danica Roem, citing what he calls a divisive political climate in Prince William County.

The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission has found Councilmember M. Lorena González did not participate in enough debates during this year’s primary election season to satisfy the requirements for the new Democracy Voucher program.

Two of the three candidates for governor in the Nov. 7 election will face off in a debate being broadcast across Virginia.

The Utah Debate Commission will sponsor a second poll to determine whether any third-party hopefuls can join the Republican and Democratic candidates in a 3rd Congressional District debate, citing concerns with the first poll that it had announced would result in a two-person showdown.

So the debates are seen as a highlight of the campaign, allowing the voting public to see our potential prime ministers up close and unedited, rather than cut down to five-second sound bites (that's what the average is now) or even shorter and more meaningless snippets.

Since Hillary Clinton lost her second bid for the presidency in November, she's had ample time to reflect on the decisions she made during the campaign and wondering what, if anything, she could have done to keep the presidency from slipping out of her grasp.

Facebook faced criticism on Wednesday after an analyst pointed out that the company’s online advertising tools claim they can reach 25 million more young Americans than the United States census says exist.

The Utah Debate Commission announced Thursday that a debate has been scheduled Oct. 18 at BYU for candidates running to fill the 3rd Congressional District seat vacated by former Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

The Utah Debate Commission is pleased to announce that it will be holding a debate for the 3rd Congressional District special election.

Third-party candidates Gary Johnson's and Jill Stein's rights were not violated when they were excluded from presidential debates during the 2012 campaign, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

Casey Seiler, the Times Union's senior news editor, will moderate the exchange.