Spencer Hawes is a hardcore conservative from, of all places, the liberal stronghold of Seattle. He was drafted into a city (Sacramento) where one of the country's most recognizable Republican ...

Presidential hopefuls Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore sparred over several volatile foreign policy issues last night in their second nationally televised debate. In a 90-minute ...

BOSTON — Presidential candidate Al Gore threw himself headlong into the raging gun-control debate yesterday, proposing a nationwide licensing system that would require safety checks and photo IDs for ...

If the final debate on Oct. 17 did nothing else, it helped clarify the choice facing voters. One candidate was more likable. The other was more knowledgeable. So what do voters want–a know-it-all or a ...

Presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush set themselves apart in Tuesday night's presidential debate, educators in Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney said Wednesday ...

Tonight's town-hall style debate in St. Louis has an urgency and importance that neither of the previous debates have had. The candidates' different philosophies about how to spend the projected ...

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I know not who Samuel Butler was (is?), but when I stumbled across this line in some reading, it seemed to me he nailed it. Al Gore's problem, that is. In the debate last week, Al Gore was, well, Al ...