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The LIVESTRONG presidential cancer forum came...

Political reporters across the country should have been deleting any pre-written lede they may have had about pandering to a core Democratic constituency tonight as repeated clashes in the AFL-CIO sponsored debate in front of a live audience of seventeen thousand at Soldier Field signaled a shift in the dynamics...

On the five hour drive through corn and soybean fields that separated the YearlyKos Presidential Leadership Forum for Democrats in Chicago Saturday afternoon from the ABC News Presidential Candidates Forum for Republicans in Des Moines the next morning, I had time to ponder my participation on and off...

If the YouTube debate taught nothing else it was that the questions and the questioners matter. So I sat down for a brief interview with each of the questioners for today's YearlyKos Presidential Forum to ask them what is uppermost in their minds as they prepare their questions. New York...

Application of debate skills to the debate about the September 17 CNN/YouTube Debate reveals that the Giuliani and Romney campaigns are making the worst possible argument for dodging the debate.

Mitt Romney's spokesman, Kevin Madden, cited a heavy fund-raising schedule and a Giuliani source was reported...

Jack Muse reported on these pages that Monday's first YouTube debate "has been widely praised in all corners of the media" because of the one respect in which it really differed from previous debates, the use of citizen generated video questions.

But what is a good...

My task tonight is to assess the debaters from the perspective of a debate coach and professional academic debate judge. But most of the focus is on the questions tonight, the "YouTubification" of the candidate debate process. Count me in the camp that argues that tonight's biggest winner will...

Although I am "Off the Bus," I am privileged by having a long friendship and professional relationship with Jeff Parcher, Senior Communications Advisor to the Richardson campaign. I first met Jeff when he was a national caliber debater for Western Washington University and I was a judge. Jeff went on...

In my first post for Off the Bus I mentioned that, in addition to persuading myself that submitting a question to Monday's CNN/YouTube debate was a worthwhile endeavor, I also made the argument to students in the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) program. Inspired in part by...

Even though Ana Marie Cox has dissed next Monday's CNN/YouTube Democratic primary debate I went ahead and submitted a video of my question and have been successful at persuading some students from the U.S. and Europe at the summer program I am helping teach to submit their...