Dallas public television station KERA reports that Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to debate on Jan. 14 -- statewide, televised, one hour, questions from journalists. Do not touch that dial. Those flames and sparks flying...
What would you have said six months ago if someone told you that that three weeks before Election Day, the GOP nominee would be spending a full day in the old Confederacy -- Virginia and North Carolina, two states he...
The Politico has a provocative piece on how unsatisfying last night's debate was an how it might be fixed. What say you -- is there a better way to go about this?...
Ruth Sherman is a communications consultant, one of those people who watch body language, hear tonal changes and weigh facial expressions. She has helped a number of reporters, including myself, map out debate strategies and discuss how to best get...
John McCain included what would be a significant economic proposal as part of an answer to the first question about "bailing out" ordinary folks. McCain just said the federal government could "buy up the bad home loan mortgages" and refinance...
--> Must be Monday. The market is in the tank, with the Dow back into four-digit territory. The candidates are slinging mud and watching the calendar. Four weeks and one day to go. Obama's side is calling McCain "erratic" and...
CNN and NBC News are reporting that Republican nominee John McCain will go ahead to Oxford, Miss., for tonight's scheduled presidential debate. McCain, of course, had said he would not attend if no deal had been reached on a Wall...
The University of Mississippi has been primping for months, and you can just tell they're hoping this debate thing Friday night doesn't turn into one of those nightmare weddings that where the groom gets cold feet at the last minute...
The nonpartisan League of Women Voters is urging Sen. John McCain to get himself down to Ole Miss tomorrow night. Taking a whack at that vexing economic crisis and the big bailout deal is fine, League president Mary Wilson says...
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Obama is talking to reporters now and says he thinks the debate Friday ought to go on. In fact it's "more important than ever." In fact, he said -- paraphrasing only slightly -- it would show whether the nominees can...
John McCain just announced that he's suspending his campaign to focus on the financial crisis. He's demanding a postponement of the first presidential debate, scheduled for Friday night. He's asking President Bush to convene a meeting involving him, Sen. Barack...
Guess the Obama campaign is really taking this "Bush and McCain are the same guy" thing pretty seriously. From the AP's story about Obama's debate prep: Among the staff helping are senior advisers David Axelrod, Anita Dunn and Robert Gibbs,...
In announcing it's agreeing to two debates with Democratic rival Rick Noriega, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's campaign has this curious thought about the set-up: "In Dallas, KERA public television is putting together a panel of journalist interrogators in cooperation with...
The New York Times has an aptly-titled post on the site's Caucus Blog: McCain, Obama Debate Debate Deals. The short version is that the McCain Camp called on Team Obama to have a series of 10 weekly town halls (starting...
Coming soon to the LBJ Library in Austin: John McCain. Not yet sure about Barack Obama. With a little help from the families of Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson, McCain has just upped the pressure on his rival accept a...
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