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Published 9/27/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Politico - Quick facts about the first presidential debate, held Friday at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, between Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.):
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