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The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
Though established as an alternative to policy debate, there has been a strong movement to embrace certain techniques that originated in policy debate. Traditional LD debate attempts to be free of policy debate "jargon". Lincoln-Douglas speeches can range in speed from a conversational pace to well over 300 words per minute.
Presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon for the 1960 election in the United States.. A leaders' debate or presidential debate is a public debate held during a general election campaign, where the candidates expose their political opinions and public policy proposals, and criticism of them, to potential voters.
This category is for articles about debates between U.S. presidential candidates, and also for other articles directly related to those debates.In addition, it can be used for articles about debates between U.S. vice presidential candidates, as those debates are adjuncts to the presidential debates.
The debates were held in seven towns in the state of Illinois: Ottawa on August 21; Freeport on August 27; Jonesboro on September 15; Charleston on September 18; Galesburg on October 7; Quincy on October 13; Alton on October 15; Slavery was the main theme of the Lincoln–Douglas debates, particularly the issue of slavery's expansion into the ...
Competitive debate, also known as forensics or speech and debate, is an activity in which two or more people take positions on an issue and are judged on how well they defend those positions. The activity has been present in academic spaces in the United States since the colonial period .
Pages in category "Political debates" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A Question of Europe;
2024 Joe Biden–Donald Trump presidential debate Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).