Debate

The first Republican debate, or should I say debates, wrapped up Thursday night from Cleveland.

UW debate team members Mary Marcum, a senior from Omaha, Neb., and Hunter McFarland, a junior from Twin Falls, Idaho, recently qualified for the National Debate Tournament.

How can one dress cause so much debate? What color is it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pressure is on President Barack Obama to deliver a Goldilocks performance in the second debate: Not too cool, as he was in his first, listless encounter with Mitt Romney. And not too hot, as some critics styled Vice President Joe Biden in his faceoff with Paul Ryan.

The Presidential race has been in full swing for a while, but it jumped into another gear on Wednesday night, as the first debate pitting the candidates head-to-head was held. President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney squared off face-to-face on numerous topics before a live audience in Denver, Colorado.

After taking a beating by Newt Gingrich in last week’s South Carolina debates and primary, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign flailed — but in Thursday night’s debate in Jacksonville, FL, the former Massachusetts governor delivered his most aggressive performance yet.

Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a Republican presidential debate he had agreed to moderate in Iowa. The real estate mogul announced Tuesday that he was stepping back in order to preserve the option of running for president in case he’s not satisfied that the eventual Republican nominee can defeat President Barack Obama...

In the latest of what seems like an endless string of debates, the candidates for the GOP nomination for president in the 2012 election went head-to-head yet again on Saturday night, this time in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dubbed the ‘Commander-in-Chief Debate’ and sponsored by CBS News and National Journal, it was the first of the cycle to appear on network television and to focus on foreign po