So when are the debates?

[usregimechange]

I have been without a TV until the fix it person arrives.

[AlCzervik]

1. the first one is next week, the 26th i think.

[saltpoint]

2. Hey debates! Gitcher debates! Ice cold debates!

DEBATES

1. First Presidential Debate:

* Date: September 26
* Site: University of Mississippi
* Topic: Foreign Policy & National Security
* Moderator: Jim Lehrer
* Staging: Podium debate
* Answer Format: The debate will be broken into nine, 9-minute segments. The moderator will introduce a topic and allow each candidate 2 minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining 5 minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment

2. Vice Presidential Debate

* Date: October 2nd
* Site: Washington University (St. Louis)
* Moderator: Gwen Ifill
* Staging/Answer Format: To be resolved after both parties' Vice Presidential nominees are selected.

3. Second Presidential Debate

* Date: October 7
* Site: Belmont University
* Moderator: Tom Brokaw
* Staging: Town Hall debate
* Format: The moderator will call on members of the audience (and draw questions from the internet). Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to each question. Following those initial answers, the moderator will invite the candidates to respond to the previous answers, for a total of 1 minute, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment. In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.

4. Third Presidential Debate

* Date: October 15
* Site: Hofstra University
* Topic: Domestic and Economic policy
* Moderator: Bob Schieffer
* Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table
* Answer Format: Same as First Presidential Debate
* Closing Statements: At the end of this debate (only) each candidate shall have the opportunity for a 90 second closing statement.

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid...

[cal04]

3. there's one on Oct 15th

http://hofstra3.reachlocal.net/debate/

Hofstra University is very pleased to host the third and final presidential debate of the 2008 presidential campaign on October 15. The debate itself is produced and sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that controls all aspects of debate production.

Ticket availability for the debate itself will be extremely limited. In debates produced by the CPD in prior presidential elections, at most a few hundred tickets were made available to the host university in the days immediately prior to the debate. The campaigns control a significant portion of the tickets.

Virtually all of tickets allocated to Hofstra University from the Commission on Presidential Debates will be distributed to current students in the days before the debate, as recommended by the CPD and consistent with past practices of debate hosts.

Only students currently enrolled and matriculated for the fall 2008 semester with a minimum of six credits are eligible to sign up to be a part of the debate ticket lottery. (Full-time employees are not eligible.) Instructions to sign up for the lottery will be posted on September 22, 2008. The lottery web site will open on September 22, 2008 and close on October 3, 2008. At the time Hofstra is notified of the number of tickets available, the lottery will be run and selected students will be notified. In addition, there will be debate simulcasts and events at various campus locations for all members of the Hofstra community.

Tickets will not be available through the CPD or Hofstra University personnel and tickets are not available through any other means at this point in time.

[valerief]

4. They're not real debates anyway. Unfortunately. nt