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Four presidential candidates will debate Tuesday night

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Tags: 2012 election, voting, Green Party, Libertarian Party, Justice Party, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Al Jazeera, debate

All other presidential candidates besides Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were excluded from Monday's debate. But on their website, Democracy Now! gave three other presidential candidates a chance to respond to the same questions. The Green Party’s Jill Stein and the Justice Party’s Rocky Anderson participated, but Libertarian Gary Johnson declined Democracy Now!...

Republican Presidential candidates debate at USF Tampa listen

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Tags: Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, USF Clean Energy Research Center, Copper Top Pub, debate, USF, 2012 Election, Florida primary election

With the Florida's primary one week away, the top four GOP candidates for President of the United States gathered at Tampa's University of South Florida last night. WMNF’s Kelly Benjamin reports, the candidates sparred during the nearly two hour long debate.

Newt Gingrich's landslide victory in South Carolina last Saturday has shaken Mitt Romney's perceived front runner status. That’s forcing Romney to go on the offensive. Romney laid into Gingrich several times attempting to connect him t...

GOP presidential candidates debate in Tampa listen

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Tags: Cnn, CNN/Tea Party debate, tea party, debate, GOP, Republican Party, Republican debate, Republicans, elections, 2012 Election, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul

Last night in at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, eight Republican presidential candidates participated in the first CNN-Tea Party debate. More than 100 tea party groups attended. Candidates were fired up and ready to answer questions from the Tea Party, while seeking their support on their path to the White House.

For many conservat...

The Republican presidential debate is Tonight in Tampa: Is the GOP right about the economy?

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Tags: debate, Tampa Fairgrounds, Robert Reich, Social Security Administration, Medicare for all, GOP, 2012 Election

Coming up today the CNN/Tea Party Express presidential candidates debate will be held tonight in Tampa at the state fairgrounds. A group of environmental, labor and civil rights activists will be outside the fairgrounds to protest the event. Today the Florida Democratic Party released an ad attacking the Republican Presidential candidates' position on Social Security and Medicare and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently gave a [speech](...

Ronda Storms on Sarah Palin listen

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Tags: 2008 Election, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, debate, Ronda Storms

A huge television audience is expected o watch the Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis tonight between Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin.

More intensity was added to this already highly anticipated event yesterday, when some conservatives went ballistic with the news that moderator Gwen Ifill is authoring a book that includes a section on Barack Obama, though Ifill said yesterday she has yet to write the chapter on Obama. The book is scheduled to be published on Inaugu...