Preprinted signs on long sticks declare "Romney" or "Bachmann" or "Perry" so that reporters at the debate venue can find their way.
Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, issued an impassioned plea to Holt to return to the debate venue at Hofstra as soon as possible.
The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill reports from the debate venue: The extent of hostility between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney exploded into view on the stage at Hofstra University, the two men feet apart, pointing fingers and shouting over one another.
Hillary Clinton clearly saw Bernie Sanders' position on firearms, coming as the senator does from a rural hunting state like Vermont, as vulnerable in the wake of the recent stream of mass shootings, not least the murder of nine black congregants of the Emanuel AME church just a block from the debate venue.
In 2012 when nominees Obama [D] and Mitt Romney [R] were due to debate, Jill Stein, physician and Green Party presidential nominee, came to the debate venue with her also middle-aged woman vice-presidential nominee.
In sweltering mid-summer night heat in southern Florida, I saw Tom eagerly do over a dozen interviews, one right after another, with English and Spanish outlets camped on media row outside of the debate venue at Miami Dade College.
When I arrived outside the debate venue in Manchester on Saturday, I was told "all the Kasich people already left," which may have had something to do with the performance artist and perennial presidential candidate Vermin Supreme chasing Kasich supporters away.
While all this is going on, the Donald J. Trump Special Event to Benefit Veterans Organizations will be held just down the road from the debate venue at Drake University, meaning viewers will be forced to make a tough choice between Trump, the rest of the GOP, and I don't know, watching Netflix or something.
In the few days since the Paris attacks, New Yorkers have taken to debating which venue of terror is most unnerving: the cafés and restaurants, the Bataclan theatre, the Stade de France.
Of course, in listing their privileges, none of them on either side list the fact that they are Princeton undergrads... and that their ability to engage this debate at major venues on a national scale is a function of that extreme privilege.
