Gossip Corner: Debate Tonight

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off during a CNN debate in Austin, Texas.

Republican John McCain will attend the premiere presidential debate as scheduled Friday night, The Associated Press reported.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Ten Republicans who want to be president will take the stage Tuesday night for their first debate in New Hampshire, hoping to make an impression on the voters who will cast ballots in the nation’s first primary early next year.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on February 21, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin.

Democratic candidates mounted the same stage for their first Granite State debate on Sunday.

Just five days later, Clinton and Obama both scored big victories on Super Tuesday, splitting two dozen contests from coast to coast.

AUSTIN, Texas It’s showdown time in Texas.

Republican presidential candidates directed as much of their firepower at President Bush as they did at each other.

She has to raise doubts about Obama and get Democrats to rethink whether they really want to rally behind him,” CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.

And I know that, if we work together, we can take on the special interests, transfer $55 billion of all those giveaways and subsidies that President Bush has given them, back to the middle class, to create jobs and provide health care and make college affordable.

Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois will face off in a Democratic presidential debate in Austin Thursday.

This is the transcript of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sens.

This is the transcript of the GOP debate at the Reagan Library Wednesday January 30.

State Republican Party Chairman Fergus Cullen says Thompson is certainly welcome to the race, but he plays down the idea that GOP voters are not happy with the existing field of candidates.

GOP front-runners attacked each other’s conservative credentials as they fought for their party’s top spot.

ROMNEY: Well, again, I’m pleased with what I do while I was as governor and happy to talk about that record.

With a potentially game-changing debate tonight, and a long string of primary results that have defied the pre-game polling, both sides are working in advance to set up the anticipated results in the most positive way possible.

MITT ROMNEY: Well, if you’re voting for George Bush, you’d be very interested in knowing the answer to that.

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama held a substantive policy debate days before Super Tuesday.

And so the central premise of this campaign is that we can bring this country together, that we can push against the special interests that have come to dominate the agenda in Washington, that we can be straight with the American people about how we’re going to solve these problems and enlist them in taking back their government.

On behalf of CNN, Univision and the candidates, we want to thank our hosts, the University of Texas and the LBJ School and Library.

The recently passed Senate immigration bill, which Sen. John McCain co-sponsored and Bush supports, has sharply divided Republicans a divide likely to emerge on the stage in Tuesday’s debate, which includes Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, whose presidential campaign is rooted in his strong opposition to immigration reform.

One mother in Green Bay gave me this bracelet in memory of a 20year-old son who had been killed in a roadside bomb, as a consequence of a war that I believe should have never been authorized and should have never been waged and has cost us billions of dollars that could have been invested here in the United States in roads and bridges and infrastructure and making sure that young people can go to college and that those who need health care actually get it.

And I watched with horror as I watched the Democratic candidates for president all having a competition.

During Sunday’s debate, the Democratic presidential candidates tried to outdo each other in heaping opprobrium on President Bush and the Iraq war.

And 21,000 National Guard and Reserve members get access to health care because I went across the party line and joined up with a Republican senator to make that happen.

It hasn’t reduced our burdens on our middle class, hasn’t solved the Social Security problems, hasn’t dealt with the health care crisis that we have in this country, hasn’t improved our schools as much as we’d like to get them improved.

The momentum in this fight has shifted to Obama, and even former President Clinton admitted while campaigning in Texas on Wednesday that his wife must win in Texas and Ohio when those states, along with Vermont and Rhode Island, hold primaries March 4.

CNN’s CAMPBELL BROWN: And the candidates have taken their seats.

Continuing the theme of her campaign, Senator Clinton used every single opportunity she had to launch misleading attack after misleading attack against Barack Obama, which is why polls show that most Americans think she’s running the most negative campaign and don’t believe she’s trustworthy.