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Polite debate favors Clinton
Voters' questions put end to confrontation; Bush is unable to attack his opponents
By Walter Mears The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — After they were scolded about campaign mud wrestling, Bill Clinton, President Bush and Ross Perot debated politely last night in a televised seminar on voter-assigned issues. It was a best-behavior debate, detailing differences without any sharp exchanges.
There were 15 questions in 90 minutes, and No. 3 and No.4 guaranteed good debate manners. First came a voter complaint that the candidates had spent too much time trashing each other's character and programs, then another from a man who said the candidates should make a commitment to talk about issues and needs, not political spin.
And that probably was to Clinton's benefit, since three-to-five-point policy dissertations are his thing, and they fit nicely into this format. A debate that broke no new ground is not likely to alter the shape of the campaign Clinton leads.
The polite tone fit the select University of Richmond audience and the 209 uncommitted voters that were pollster-selected to provide questions from the floor. It all had the air of a decorous TV talk show.
"You know, nobody likes who shot John, but I think the first negative campaign run in this election was by Governor Clinton, and I'm not going to sit there and be a punishing bag," Bush said. "I'm going to stand up and say 'Hey, listen, here's my side of it.'
"I've been disturbed by the tone and the tenor of this campaign," Clinton said. "I'm not interested in his character. I want to change the character of the presidency."
Bush repeated his complaint about Clinton's involvement in Vietnam
War protests when he was a student in London in 1969 and 1970. That had stirred confrontation in the first debate in St. Louis on Sunday night, the president saying it raised questions of character and judgment. Clinton had called it an unfair attack on his patriotism.
"You can call it mud wrestling, but I think it's fair," Bush said. "I am deeply troubled by someone who demonstrates and organizes demonstrations in a foreign land when his country's at war." But the return struck no sparks.
He followed up by once again accusing Clinton of trying to take both sides on issues. "You can't turn the White House into the waffle house," he said. No sparks there either.
All of it was in marked contrast to the vice-presidential debate two nights ago, an hour and a half of arguments and interruptions, the sharpest confrontation since televised debating began 32 years ago.
Next up: the finale in East Lansing, Mich., Monday night. That one will shift back to the formats of the first two, a single moderator as in the vice-presidential debate, then a panel of questioners, as in the presidential opener.
U.S. Senate candidates to debate
Kansas' Incumbent and three contenders will appear in Topeka
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Four Kansans running for U.S. Senate will participate in their second televised debate at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
The one-hour debate, sponsored by Kansas Public Radio and KTWU Public Television, Channel 11 in Topeka, will feature Republican Sen. Bob Dole, Democrat Gorilla O'Dell, Independent Christina Campbell-Cline and Libertarian Mark Kirk.
O'Dell, the economy's primary issues include the economy and health care,
said she was running for office because Kansas needed a new voice on Capitol Hill.
"All my adult life I've been living under Bob Dole's policies," O'Dell said. "He's been there one-third of a century and you can't be there that long without becoming a part of the problem."
O'Dell said Dole was also spending too much time campaigning in other states for his fellow republicans.
But Walt Riker, Dole's press secretary, said that was not true.
"Senator Dole has been all over the state and in Washington, D.C., Riker said. "He's doing his job and he's had a record year."
Dole is all about. He is committed to education and jobs. He's committed to Kansas."
The debate will be broadcast on Kansas Public Radio, including KU station KANU 90.5, KTWU and six other Kansas television stations.
"It might be educational for Gloria O'Dell to check out the Dole Center on KU's campus. That's what Bob
Tama Wagner, KANU Statehouse reporter, will be the debate moderator. The panel will include Steve Kraske, of the Kansas City Star; Gordon Bassham, of KMUW Radio in Wichita, and Lew Ferguson, Associated Press Statehouse reporter.
Stacy McHugh, O'Dell's KU director, said she and six other KU students would participate in a rally in front of the station tomorrow with O'Dell supporters from other Kansas universities.
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