Ready or not, the first presidential debate of 2008 — and the earliest ever — will happen tonight in South Carolina, where an expected eight Democratic contenders will try to make an impression with 60-second answers in 90 minutes, not counting commercials. As a historian said, it’s not going to beat “Survivor” (actually, it starts an hour earlier). But “it just gives a couple of top people a chance to make a gaffe,” said political scientist Larry Sabato. That will make it precious fodder for what’s already being called the Blog Election.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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