At What Time and On What Channel is the Oct 15 presidential debate?

In case you were wondering about when the next presidential debate is taking place and on what television channels it is showing:

The October 15th presidential debate between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain on the Hofstra University campus in Long Island, New York, is scheduled to take place at 8 pm Central Time (9 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm Mountain Time, 6 pm Pacific Time).

The presidential debate will be held in a standard debate format and will last 90 minutes. The debate will be broken into nine, nine-minute segments. The moderator will introduce a topic and allow each candidate two minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining five minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment.

The debate moderator will be Bob Schieffer of CBS, and the topic will be domestic and economic policy. The debate will be aired on television channels ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC America.

This is the final debate and may be John McCain’s last big chance to change the momentum of the election in his favor. Voters so far have perceived Barack Obama as the more informed candidate when it comes to economic policy. Watch for lots of numbers being thrown around and some aggressive debating.

At What Time and On What Channel is the Presidential Debate on Oct. 7?

In case you were wondering about when the next presidential debate is taking place and on what television channels it is showing:

The October 7th presidential debate between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain on the Belmont University campus in Nashville, Tennessee, is scheduled to take place at 8 pm Central Time (9 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm Mountain Time, 6 pm Pacific Time). It will be held in a “town hall” format and will last 90 minutes. The debate will be aired on television channels ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC America.

When And On What Channel is the Presidential Debate?

In case you were wondering about when tonight’s presidential debate is taking place and on what television channels it is showing:

Tonight’s presidential debate between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain on the Ole Miss campus in Oxford, Miss. is scheduled to take place at 8 pm Central Time (9 pm Eastern Time, 7 pm Mountain Time, 6 pm Pacific Time). The debate will be aired on television channels ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC America.

Apparently, tonight’s presidential debate will take place whether or not John McCain decides to show up.

According to the National Review’s Rich Lowry, the Ole Miss community is seriously peeved with McCain’s attempt to postpone. A presidential debate event is costly for the university and takes a great deal of planning. Look for the crowd to be more hostile than usual towards McCain.

In Preparation for Tonight’s Debate: Two Fact Checks

Since these questions might come up in tonight’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, this just in from the Fact Checker over at the Washington Post. As the scouts say, “Be prepared!”

In its attempts to rebut charges by The New York Times that campaign manager Rick Davis was until recently involved in business with (and receiving money from) Freddie Mac, the McCain campaign has been ducking the question by making false allegations against the New York Times. This is called “working the refs” (or “blaming the messenger”), where a contender attacks the media source that publishes true but embarrassing information in order to discredit the information. Rick Davis’ association with Freddie Mac is factual and gives the lie to McCain’s claim that he is aggressively going after those who caused the recent economic crisis. Read the full debunking here. Watch for McCain repeating tonight that he is going after Wall Street bigwigs and/or defending Rick Davis against “unfair attacks” that are actually true.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden has run into some major trouble explaining his statement at a recent Pennsylvania rally that McCain’s tax plans will represent a tax increase by more than a trillion dollars for middle class voters. In fact, McCain’s proposal includes a full overhaul of the tax and insurance system that includes tax credits and lower insurance costs. Biden’s numbers come only from the cost of the insurance plan as established by the estimates of the Office of the Management and Budget. However, according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, Biden omits that if seen in context of all the reforms, middle class tax payers will at least break even under McCain’s proposal. Read the full debunking with a video clip of the speech by Biden here. Watch for Barack Obama claiming tonight that John McCain wants to raise taxes on middle class voters by exorbitant amounts.

Does anyone have similar things to add? (Please document your claims from objective sources. Thanks.)