Sentence examples for and the second debate from inspiring English sources

But the gains probably have more to do with the vagaries of television scheduling than the popularity of the candidates: the first debate this year and the second debate in 2004 were on Fridays, typically a low-rated night for television.

Mr. Clemente said, "If I said, 'There's going to be a show on where you can find out how you might get a better job or retirement income,' you'd go, 'Geez, all right, let me listen to that.' " In the early days of the presidential primary race, in May and June, the audience was more than three million each for the first debate on Fox and the second debate on CNN.

Polling always lags reality, meaning that the effect of the Billy Bush/Donald Trump tape and the second debate are not reflected in today's data one tiny bit.

And during the second debate he claimed repeatedly that the state spends $4.7 billion a year to aid those without health insurance.

"Getting to 15% and being in the second debate and third debate, my partner, fiancee, best friend, Kate, she said, Gary, this is just your luck, you don't have to hassle with the first debate and you're still going to get elected president".

The debate started off pretty civil a turn around from all the heated remarks tossed back and forth in the second debate.

Nielsen, a measurement company, said 59.2 million viewers at home were watching during an average minute of the debate, down from 67.2 million for the first debate on Oct. 3 and 65.6 million for the second debate on Oct. 17.

Nevertheless, Mr. Gingrich entered Thursday evening trailing Mr. Romney in the polls and needing a win in the second debate.

That's up from 124 million for the second debate, and more than the 88 million for the first.

The final debate was lacking the novelty of the first debate, the antagonisms of the second debate, and Joe Biden's laugh from the vice presidential debate.

He was further helped by the fact that the debates were less crowded, with Jon Huntsman dropping out the day of the first debate, and Rick Perry dropping out the day of the second debate.