Like all incumbent presidents before him, Mr. Obama will seek to balance the daily demands of the Oval Office with the realities of campaigning over the next 19 months.
Although tonight's debate was the last event where Mr. Gore and Mr. Bradley will share a stage before the caucuses, both contenders will engage in a frenzy of campaigning over the next six days.
It is the latest in a series of campaigns over the past two decades for women to be allowed to sit behind the wheel.
They can't really be placed in terms of a left/right political spectrum, but they've done a lot of campaigning over ticket prices.
The flurry of campaigning over the weekend and trickle of Senate campaign ads that hit the television and radio airwaves over the last few weeks were a notable departure from a Senate race best known for its lack of sizzle or intrigue.
Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, screen early cuts of campaign advertisements, brought over by his media adviser, Mark McKinnon, in the Yellow Room of the family residence.
"It's the governor's hope, now that the season of campaign rhetoric is over, that there will be extensive and deliberative debate," Mr. Porcari said.
Nationally, voters like Mr Rudd more than Mr Abbott: an early campaign poll gave him a 14-point lead as preferred prime minister.The leaders are likely to slug out most of the campaign over which of them can do a better job on the economy.
With much the same system in place for Victoria's state upper house, a lot of the energy of the campaign over the past week has been spent on jockeying for preference deals.
Mr. Hevesi has suddenly picked up his pace, maintaining a busy schedule of campaign events over the weekend.
