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Novel Debate Format, but Same Old Candidates
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jul 24, 2007 07:10am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Times article.
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"The Democratic presidential debate last night was unlike any that had come before: two hours of questions conveyed on homemade videos from Americans who were by turns tough talking and highly emotional, mixing pathos and bathos with the simply offbeat.
One man asked about gun rights while brandishing an assault weapon, calling it his baby. Parents mourned their children, lost to war.
And some of the candidates responded in kind, imbuing their language with an immediacy that matched the tenor of the questions. Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio castigated his fellow Democrats for not ending the war in Iraq, and Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware opened up about his wife and daughter, who are dead.
Yet while there was a new format for the debate, which was sponsored by CNN and the video-sharing Web site YouTube, the change went only so far: Candidates frequently lapsed into their talking points, and there was little actual debate among them.
Much of the debate was taken up with questions on social and domestic issues, including race, education and gay rights. At one point the candidates were asked if they would agree to be paid only the national minimum wage if elected president and at another whether they had arrived for the debate, in Charleston, S.C., on private jets."
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