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Toomey and Sestak to debate twice this month

There will indeed be at least two debates between the candidates in Pennsylvania’s competitive Senate race.

Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey will come together for their first debate of the general election cycle Oct. 20. That debate on Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate will be moderated by George Stephanopoulos.

Two days later, the candidates will participate in another debate on Pittsburgh’s CBS affiliate.

After debating twice before the May primary as common foes to Senator Arlen Specter, Toomey and Sestak have yet to debate. Sestak was unable to attend an event hosted by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry last month, leaving Toomey to participate in a one-0n-one Q&A with veteran newsman Ted Koppel.

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October 4, 2010 at 1:58 pm

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  1. Nic

    Oct 4th, 2010

    Well at least we only have to listen to Joe ramble on incoherently twice more and then we probably never seen or hear from him again.

  2. Matt M.

    Oct 4th, 2010

    Touche, Nic.

    It stretches the imagination to think that Sestak felt compelled to decline to debate Toomey the first time because “he had a fundraiser with John Kerry,” the man who dropped the ball through the floor in 2004 and then insulted the military two years later.

  3. bill healy

    Oct 4th, 2010

    Poor Rat Toomey,the Admiral will swab the decks with him.

  4. Jean

    Oct 4th, 2010

    I would like to hear a true debate. Tell me What you will DO Not tell me why I should not like the other candidate. I wish negative ads were not allowed. Tell me who you are and what you will do.

  5. David Diano

    Oct 4th, 2010

    Bill-
    Considering how Toomey “torpedoed” Sestak in their previous two debates (especially the first one), you are really living in a fantasy.

    Sestak is an unspectacular debater. He’d not going to move the ball.

  6. Former Dem

    Oct 5th, 2010

    Bill H

    You are sooooooo right, Toomey is a rat of
    the first degree, not fight to be a dog catcher !

    David D

    Sestak can’t even play with the ball.
    Why would anyone vote for either of the fools ?

  7. bill healy

    Oct 5th, 2010

    LOL, Dave I was at the debate at LaSalle, Rat Toomey got wiped out, everything he claimed was false (lie) he claimed not to have voted for the repeal of Glass-Steagal, I don’t think Joe or George will allow him to offer us lies and distortions without challenge. I didn’t see you at the debates, so can only guess you were getting them beamed to you via tinfoil hat. You loser.

  8. David Diano

    Oct 5th, 2010

    Bill-
    I saw the first Heath-care debate, and while I agree that no truth passed through Toomey’s lips there either, he wiped the floor with Sestak. Joe came off as stiff and rehearsed. A friend of mine from work (who leans Dem, and didn’t know Joe from Adam) had seen that debate and described Joe as “creepy”.

    As for the LaSalle debate, Joe wasn’t there to debate Toomey, he was there to tout his Democratic credentials for the Primary against Specter. Sestak could be as far to the Left as he wanted in that debate, because he wasn’t trying to appeal to anyone but the Democratic base. Sestak could tout his nearly 100% voting record with Pelosi or vow to be “Obama’s strongest ally in the Senate”. Joe’s on record as saying he thought the stimulus should have been bigger (and tried to blame Arlen). But, he can’t brag about any of that stuff in a General election debate (but you can be sure that Toomey will be hammering him with it).

    Unfortunately, A LOT of people believe the discredit trickle-down, tax-cuts pay for themselves, unspecified service cuts, voodoo economics that Toomey spouts. Having Joe be “right” on the issues doesn’t matter when the voters don’t know right from wrong and think wrong is right.

    The voters (incorrectly) think the country is going in the wrong direction. And even though they don’t think the Republicans have offered any solutions, they are still planning to roll-the-dice and go with the Republicans, anyway.

    That’s just the reality of it.

    The only person Joe could beat in a debate is sweaty and incoherent Pat Meehan. Oh, right, Joe abandoned his seat the first chance he got, and absconded with over $3 million he raised under the guise of holding the seat for the Dems.

  9. Matt M.

    Oct 5th, 2010

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    Just like he will abscond to his hideaway in Alexandria, VA, HIS TRUE HOME, once Toomey pushes him off the electoral cliff.

  10. delco observer

    Oct 6th, 2010

    Toomey couldn’t debate himself with Ted Koppel in front of the friendly illegal camopaign contribution gathering CHamber of Commerce. Talk about rehearsed and stiff…Toomey looks and acts like an undertaker. Would someone send Diano a registration Change card?

  11. David Diano

    Oct 6th, 2010

    delco hider-
    When you crawl out of Sestak’s ass, will you crawl back under your anonymous rock?

    Post under your real name.

  12. g

    Oct 17th, 2010

    Doesn’t matter who is a better debater. Americans are seriously suffering from AMNESIA.
    The guys that spent us into oblivion, AND feathered wall streets nests…want the job back again !! Are you nuts America ? P.S. the 2009 deficit they keep quoting was Bush’s budget NOT Obamas. 2010 was actually less ! They assume that most americans are too dumb to know the difference. The hypocrisy makes me sick. Get ready america, if they do get back control, Huge tax cuts become permanent, thus bankrupting us….and they will pay for the wealthys bonus check by getting rid of soc. sec, and Medicare and the Dept of Ed, with the help of course of the tea party “small gov” puppets, that half don’t know they are being used. Wake up !! Since the beginning of time, the gop has been for the wealthy and big business and the dems for middle class……Just figure out who you are and vote accordingly.

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