Deputy chief whip Greg Hands said: "Am not at all surprised that the Sun has Miliband's debate notes.
But Democrats, in debate, noted that most of the debt reflected the accumulation of annual deficits in the years that Republicans controlled the White House and Congress until 2007.
Imagine that the Guardian has got hold of the motivational debate notes from Thursday night of the remaining six party leaders.
Then, of course, many people on both sides of the debate noted the timing of the announcement, coming just months before the November election as both Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, are vying for the Latino vote.
When the sharp panel assembled by Fox News for the debate noted that Mr. Pawlenty had supported a cap-and-trade system in 2008 to limit greenhouse gases, there were gasps in the audience in Greenville, S.C.
Clegg says the aim of the review, due to report after the general election, will be to bring the issue into the mainstream of public debate, noting the "quality of the debate in the US provides an unflattering contrast to the muted debate on this side of the Atlantic".
"I knew even at that time something was up with that issue," Ms. Palin said on Fox News after the debate, noting that Mr. Perry's former chief of staff had ties to Merck, the company that manufactures the Gardasil vaccine.
Mr. Obama, for example, is now discussing abortion and birth control not as a matter of controlling one's own body but as "a pocketbook issue for women and families," as he said in the recent town-hall-style debate, noting that many women rely on Planned Parenthood not just for contraceptives but for referrals and screenings.
The Confederate flag was first placed atop the Statehouse dome in 1962 during the centennial observances of the Civil War, and several speakers during the debate noted that today is the 139th anniversary of the day the war began when South Carolina forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston.
