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Candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. Before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question on a small card like this. Those cards were collected and then given to me this afternoon. My job, under the rules of the evening, was to decide the order the questions will be asked and to call on the qu ....
Highly contested races in u. S. History. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after the boaters went to the polls, when the u. S. Supreme court stopped the florida recount. This awarded the states electoral votes to president bush. Mr. Lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who , along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these ....
I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and ....
I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and ....
This is just over 90 minutes. Moderator good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] moderator before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area vo ....