Word: weeks
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Suspicious of the vice president's claims after last week's debate, the executive board member of the Harvard Republican club was just a few steps away from a computer connected to MSNBC's online fact checking website...
...Obviously, we need to do three things," Murphy said. "Make field goals, which we didn't do last week. We also need to eliminate penalties, which we have been pretty good about, and eliminate turnovers...
...hope that the last debate next week will give the candidates an opportunity to clarify the issues on which voters should make their decisions. Unfortunately, Lehrer's last question of the evening did not further this goal; by challenging Gore's credibility in a way that gave Bush the first response, he ended the debate in a way that put the vice president at a distinct disadvantage...
Questions of credibility are not the sort that can be resolved in a two-minute debate response; in an election as detail- and number-focused as this, the moderator must take care not to undercut one side's ability to criticize the other's arguments. Next week's debate would best serve the voters by giving them the evidence they need to decide...
...amazing what a nice set of functional furniture can do. Last week, George W. Bush and Al Gore stood at podiums, and Gore, as befitting the furniture, gave what came across as a lecture: correcting his opponent, holding forth, sighing in exasperation at Bush's answers. The pundits and the polls agreed: Gore had won the debate. Then he lost: within a week, Bush had opened up a lead in several polls, as voters apparently decided they were tired of Professor Know...