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Debate Highlights

February 27th, 2008

The highs and lows from Tuesday night’s debate.

Clinton and Obama battle on healthcare

The fight over NAFTA

Closing pitch, who is more worthy?

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The Hill : The Hill's Erica Wisniewski and Sam Youngman gave viewers a rundown of what to expect at the GOP convention this week on HillTube, forecasting hurricane delays and excitement around John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

The Hill : See a transcript of their talk below.

Erica Wisniewski : What do you think is in store? We have the convention starting on Monday. Do you think possibly some weather might delay that?

Sam Youngman : Well I tell you Erica it’s an exciting week and what makes these conventions fun these days is the variables. What new and different is going to happen that we’re not expecting? Big hurricane developing off the East Coast. Obviously we’re all watching that. I had a Republican National Convention source tell me earlier today that they’re monitoring this hour by hour. Sen. McCain has talked about possibly delaying the convention start, which might not go very well for some of these delegat

Erica Wisniewski : If the convention does start on time, what do you see really exciting happening? Is it all going to be around Gov. Palin?

Sam Youngman : I think you would be hard-pressed to say that’s not because a lot of are like ‘who is this woman?’ And we’re excited. We’re excited anytime there’s a new news story. We’re excited to see who she is. I mean this is her big introduction to the country this week. You know, we’ll be eager to see how she performs this week. But also, Democrats have really pushed hard to make this convention, to make this whole election, about John McCain as George Bush. Now President Bush speaks on Mo
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