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...candidates argued over a variety of issues including health care, education, foreign affairs and affirmative action during the 90 minute town-hall format debate at Washington University in St. Louis...
...happen in this most TV-centric of the three debates - the town hall debate, the Oprah debate, the debate format in which Bill Clinton in 1992 ushered in eight years of talk-show politics. And how ironic, in a debate where professional journalists otherwise faded into the background. In St. Louis, a group of midwesterners, having been judged by popular opinion to be more normal than anyone else in America (and I assure you, as a native of Michigan, that this is not true), were selected to ask the questions...
...issues - well, the issues may be starting to run together a little. Having chosen the questions from the audience of avowedly uncommitted St. Louisians, moderator Jim Lehrer covered perhaps the first two thirds of the familiar list: health care, education, guns, farms, affirmative action and just a dollop of the foreign and military matters that the second debate had featured so prominently...
...Gore, meanwhile, is the comprehensive policy package for the job. Was that enough Tuesday to take the momentum back in a race that is statistically even but slightly Bush's, at least for now? That four-point lead Bush took to St. Louis had to be taken back, and Gore knew it. He came out in full-on people mode, tossing the audience a "how are you all" on the way in and breaking the don't-ask-the-questioner-questions-rule with a Clintonesque "what grade do you teach?" (He actually defused the breach rather charmingly, reading...
...differences between them have never seemed more stark: Tuesday night's debate was, ultimately, a paean to days gone by, when the GOP actually kept out of people's personal lives and the Democrats doled out federal funding without a second thought. St. Louis inspired Bush and Gore to abandon the middle ground altogether. Bush wants a teensy, tiny federal government, where meetings are short and there's plenty of time for jogging. Gore envisions federal tentacles creeping into every last aspect of public life, including education, health care and gun control...