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There’s Joe Biden, former president Barrack Obama’s vice-president for eight years. At the onset of the primary season that status alone catapulted him to the top of every poll as the presumptive nominee.(Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)

US Democratic frontrunner Biden drops in polls after debate

Biden, a former vice president under Barack Obama, still polls the highest at 22% among the two-dozen contenders for the Democratic nomination

US President Joe Biden. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Biden to hit campaign trail before blue-collar supporters

For his first public event since announcing his candidacy last Thursday, Biden chose Pennsylvania, the state where he was born 76 years ago

‘I will expect him to reflect on his attitude and behaviour. I invite all my fellow men to hold him

Corporate tax: How low can you go?

​The reforms in the pipeline cannot stop countries from offering attractive corporate tax rates to attract investors.

For a quality debate

Debate in your own tongue, if at all

In SA parties are elected, not individuals. Why, then, do we have the insistent hype about a debate between President Jacob Zuma and Helen Zille?

The debates are over and now it is up to Americans to choose

Obama ends in poll position

A global poll for the BBC World Service has revealed that 20 out of 21 countries preferred Barack Obama to his challenger.

Opinions will be divided over the final presidential debate.

Opportunity knocks for Romney’s crew

Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney’s hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.

Opinions will be divided over the final presidential debate.
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Obama aces foreign policy debate, Romney comes out solid

US President Barack Obama came out with guns blazing at the final presidential debate on Tuesday but Republican Mitt Romney held his own just as well.

George W Bush with a human face?

Obama accuses Mitt of suffering from ‘Romnesia’

Barack Obama told a crowd of about 9 000 in the battleground state of Virginia that Romney was backtracking on his conservative-leaning promises.

About 70-million viewers tuned in to watch the second presidential debate this week.

Romney down but not out

Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.

A final presidential debate before next month’s election

Ten things about presidential debates

The US debate tradition began in 1858 when, during the senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln challenged an opponent from the audience.

President Barack Obama is due to face Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a debate focused on foreign policy on Monday.

Romney on a roll after first TV debate

Mitt Romney has raised Republican hopes of an election comeback with a spirited and aggressive performance in the first televised presidential debate.

Squabbles leading up to the great debate

After three weeks of negotiation and at least six meetings, the African National Congress, the National Party and the SABC have finally settled on the format of next Thursday’s…

It was the prospect of power sharing between barely reconciled ideological and moral enemies that confounded the people. (Photo  Louise Gubb/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)

Clash of the television titans

Thursday’s TV debate between South Africa’s two leading statesmen promises to be a psychological drama revealing much about how they are going to rule the country together.