United States presidential election debates, 2008
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| Date | September 26, 2008 |
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| Location |
University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi |
| Participants |
Senator John McCain |
| Date | October 7, 2008 |
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| Location |
Belmont University Nashville, Tennessee |
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Barack Obama, John McCain Presidential Nominees |
| Date | October 15, 2008 |
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| Location |
Hofstra University Hempstead, Long Island, New York |
| Participants |
Barack Obama, John McCain Presidential Nominees |
The United States presidential election, 2008 was sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization that sponsored four debates that occurred at various locations around the United States (U.S.) in September and October 2008. Three of the debates involved the presidential nominees, and one involved the vice-presidential nominees.
Republican Party nominee John McCain and Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama did not agree to additional debates; however, each was interviewed at the Civil Forum on the Presidency, held on August 16, 2008, and at the Service Nation Presidential Forum on September 11, 2008. Their respective running mates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, did not participate in any additional debates.
On Saturday, August 16, 2008, both McCain and Obama appeared at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in California. Similar to the Compassion Forum held in the Democratic debates, each candidate appeared separately, answering similar questions from Warren for one hour. Obama appeared first, followed by McCain.
On September 11, 2008, McCain and Obama were separately interviewed at the Service Nation presidential forum at Columbia University.
The three presidential debates:
One vice-presidential debate:
The first and third of the 90-minute CPD presidential debates were divided into nine 9-minute issue segments, allowing the candidates to discuss selected topics, answer follow-ups from the moderator and directly address each other. The second CPD presidential debate featured a town hall format in which voters, either present at the debate or via the internet, posed questions on a topic of their choice. The format of the single vice presidential debate followed that of the first and third presidential debates, but included questions on all topics, with shorter response and discussion periods compared to the presidential debates.
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