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Davis called for an emphasis on what I term the "extant civic"--civic issues framed and debated in the same manner as they would be debated in civic life.

The complexity of real-world events confounding an analysis of the impact of the presidential debates is actually a problem that applies to a review of all of the elections; it's not a perfect science, and the conclusions drawn here could be debated.

Ted Kulongoski and Republican challenger Ron Saxton debated five times: three times in Portland, once in Welches, and once in Medford.

First, this was the first time an incumbent debated. Gerald Ford was finishing out Nixon's term and was technically an incumbent, yet Ford had never won a national election.

However, once discussed and debated in the public realm, the new loading of cultural meanings onto sexual problems no doubt affected the individual man even as he faced issues such as homosexuality, impotence, or sexual brutality in private.

They are never, to be sure, actually defeated in a fair contest: as Chesterton so famously said, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." Precisely because the Christian ideal creates difficulty for those who advocate, inter alia, total, uninhibited sexual licence, they have to resort to craven ways of trying to ensure that the ideal is never heard openly or debated freely and fairly.