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This week hear from your Federal candidates Natasha Griggs (Country Liberals) and Luke Gosling (Australian Labor Party) in a debate. The candidates will be put through their paces by Alyssa Betts (ABC News Darwin) and Christopher Walsh (NT News).

UNLV, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) and Clark County School District (CCSD) will partner this fall on a host of election-themed educational activities for K-12 and college students leading up to October’s presidential debate.

The Ali versus Frazier-level match-ups could rival the Super Bowl and bust the presidential-debate viewership record set by Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Facebook and News.com.au pulled close to one million views with its live stream of Australia’s first digital debate last Friday. It was the first time the government has addressed the electorate through live, online video.

Para el 31% de los encuestados, en cambio, fue el segundo debate presidencial el que marcó un punto de quiebre en la campaña del ex premier. En el debate llevado a cabo en las instalaciones de la Universidad de Lima, el presidente electo mostró un inusitado ánimo de ataque contra la candidata

More than 2.2 million people have watched the news.com.au and Facebook Leaders’ Debate in their Facebook newsfeed on Friday, according to the latest figures, but that number is expected to climb as people catch up over the weekend. The live debate was shared 1800 times and generated more than 38,500

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) yesterday inaugurated a 10–member committee to assist the institute to plan and organise the 2016 presidential debates.

Reaching 15 percent is important because all presidential candidates with an average of that level of support qualify to appear on nationally-televised presidential debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates runs these debates

Los cuatro candidatos se jugaban mucho en el debate de anoche y apostaron inicialmente por arriesgar lo justo para intentar consolidar sus expectativas sin perder posiciones. El debate no aclaró los pactos postelectorales para romper el bloqueo.

El debate entre los candidatos a la presidencia de España fue visto por un total de 10,5 millones de espectadores (57% de share) en 17 cadenas, mientras que el debut de España en la Eurocopa congregó a 8,8 millones (55,8%) en Telecinco.

For the first time ever, Australia will host an online leaders debate as a national election campaign for the upcoming Australia elections on July 2, 2016.

Among those mistakes, it said, were the decision not to take part in political debates ahead of the voting, a campaign messaged that was incoherent and failed to “communicate hope”, its public sparring with the then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness over how his new house was funded, and unresolved