Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates

Announced 19 November 2007. The debates begin at 9PM Eastern Daylight time, last 90 minutes, and are open to candidates who (1) are constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President, (2) have achieved ballot access in a sufficient number of states to win 270 electoral votes, and (3) are polling at 15% in select national polls. The backup sites are Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Reference: http://www.debates.org.
 

Date	Debate	Topic/Format	Scoring	Location
Friday 26 September	First Presidential	Domestic Policy		University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi
Thursday 2 October	Vice Presidential			Washington University St. Louis, Missouri
Tuesday 7 October	Second Presidential	Town Meeting		Belmont University Nashville, Tennessee
Wednesday 15 October 2008	Third Presidential	Foreign Policy		Hofstra University Hempstead, New York

 

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