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The August televised "debate" among Republican presidential contenders on Fox News Channel was a smashing success by the standards of television executives. It attracted 24 million viewers and was by far the highest-rated primary debate in history. It was the largest audience ever for a program on

Like a car that just won't start, Campaign 2015 is running on empty, lacking the fuel of real issues to keep the election engine running.

In autumn 2014, during the last few weeks of the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign, researchers at Robert Gordon University explored the Twitter response to three live televised political debates, each of which involved high-profile participants.

Recently, my longtime friend and college classmate, John David Dyche, authored a column calling for a series of issue-driven gubernatorial debates leading up to this November’s general election. John David’s modest proposal, as he termed it, would have a 75-minute debate hosted in each of Kentucky’s

A lawmaker proposed to create a Presidential Debate Commission for the coming election.

En el Concejo Deliberante de la Capital se aprobó, luego de dos cuartos intermedios, el proyecto de ordenanza del edil Juan Cruz Miranda sobre la obligatoriedad de instalar un debate público con propuestas legislativas y de gobierno para candidatos a ocupar el cargo de concejal e intendente de la

Bernard Shaw’s personal observations and conclusions based on moderating presidential debates as shared with delegates to the 3rd International Debate Best Practices Symposium.

Here’s a list of things that you wouldn’t want to be called if you were a party leader facing an election in 60 days’ time. Scared. Arrogant. Cynical. Hypocritical. Cowardly. Calculating. High-handed. Feeble. Duplicitous. Undemocratic. Chicken.

Labour leader pledges to enshrine voters’ rights as he attacks ‘tawdry spectacle’ of prime minister avoiding discussion.

Yet, debates like these are avenues through which the electorate can take direct measure of people seeking their support into elective office. It is one way of assessing the intelligence and preparedness, not necessarily the oratorical abilities, of contestants to public office. The electing public

MANILA, Philippines -- With a little over a year before the 2016 presidential elections, a lawmaker is pushing for the creation of a debate commission that would require candidates to face off and discuss their platforms. Read more at Interaksyon.