Presidential Debate
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US Democratic frontrunner Biden drops in polls after debate
Biden, a former vice president under Barack Obama, still polls the highest at 22% among the two-dozen contenders for the Democratic nomination
Biden to hit campaign trail before blue-collar supporters
For his first public event since announcing his candidacy last Thursday, Biden chose Pennsylvania, the state where he was born 76 years ago
Corporate tax: How low can you go?
The reforms in the pipeline cannot stop countries from offering attractive corporate tax rates to attract investors.
Debate in your own tongue, if at all
In SA parties are elected, not individuals. Why, then, do we have the insistent hype about a debate between President Jacob Zuma and Helen Zille?
Obama ends in poll position
A global poll for the BBC World Service has revealed that 20 out of 21 countries preferred Barack Obama to his challenger.
Opportunity knocks for Romney’s crew
Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney’s hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.
Obama aces foreign policy debate, Romney comes out solid
US President Barack Obama came out with guns blazing at the final presidential debate on Tuesday but Republican Mitt Romney held his own just as well.
Obama accuses Mitt of suffering from ‘Romnesia’
Barack Obama told a crowd of about 9 000 in the battleground state of Virginia that Romney was backtracking on his conservative-leaning promises.
Romney down but not out
Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.
Ten things about presidential debates
The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.
Romney on a roll after first TV debate
Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.
Squabbles leading up to the great debate
After three weeks of negotiation and at least six meetings, the African National Congress, the National Party and the SABC have finally settled on the format of next Thursday’s…
Clash of the television titans
Thursday’s TV debate between South Africa’s two leading statesmen promises to be a psychological drama revealing much about how they are going to rule the country together.