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Broadcast on: MSNBC Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT The Candidates: Michele Bachmann Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, she earned a Master of Laws degree, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Herman Cain Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently...

Candidates Jerry Brown (D) and Meg Whitman (R) met on a stage at Dominican University in San Rafael in the final debate of the California gubernatorial campaign, moderated by former NBC News Host Tom Brokaw. The debate was more open than most, as Brokaw sometimes allowed the two to speak without his interruption. One only hopes that other moderators might follow his example, and allow something approaching true debates between candidates. (more)

Gubernatorial rivals Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman slugged it out toe to toe Tuesday, a far cry from their last debate when Brown hammered Whitman mercilessly on her hiring and firing an illegal immigrant housekeeper. Whitman was clearly the more aggressive during their third and last debate at Dominican University in Marin County, taking advantage of the Brown campaign's embarrassment about an accidentally recorded phone message in which someone close to Brown, in his presence, called Whitman a "whore" in obtaining a police union endorsement. Brown apologized again, but then may have stumbled by declaring that calling someone a whore...

Final Gubernatorial Face-Off Tonight NBC hosts event at Dominican University of California; Watch live at 6:30 p.m. Given the recent fireworks in the "Campaign to Run the Most-Bankrupt State in the Union," we're thinking tonight's debate will make for some really, really good TV. Jerry Brown's camp is having to work around a staffer using the word "whore" very near the words "Meg Whitman" in a recent message mishap. Whitman's camp is still dealing with the fallout of illegal labor at her Mountain View home from back in the day.

Who won the final Brown-Whitman debate? * Whitman by a landslide * Brown by a mile * Brown narrowly * Whitman narrowly *Too close to call Poll is here

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown apologized to Republican Meg Whitman this evening for a recording in which an unidentified associate of Brown's refers to Whitman as a "whore." "I apologize, Ms. Whitman," he said. Whitman wasn't having it. "It's the people of California who deserve better than slurs and personal attacks, . . .

California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown debated tonight at Dominican University in San Rafael. The moderator was Tom Brokaw who raised the 'whore' comment with Brown.Video of the exchange at Bay Area NBCTransription by Kristinn.BROKAW: Mr. Brown you did attempt to reach out to the police union. The telephone message was left on. It's now a notorious part of this campaign. In which somebody in your campaign referred to Ms. Whitman as a "whore." A campaign spokesman then described that as "salty language" and apologized after a fashion. We've heard no outrage from you about the use of...

Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper, exchanging blistering jabs as they met for their second televised debate. The most direct confrontation between the two candidates of the election season came when the moderator asked Whitman about revelations earlier this week that she employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan, whom she fired in 2009 after nine years. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until shortly before she was dismissed. Whitman turned to face Brown and accused him of being behind Diaz Santillan's emergence. "Jerry, you should be ashamed," Whitman...

FRESNO – For weeks, Republican Meg Whitman demanded that Jerry Brown, her Democratic rival for governor, debate her in Fresno, clearly hoping it would shore up support in the GOP-leaning San Joaquin Valley and among Latino voters, but Brown stalled. Whitman finally got her wish Saturday in a bilingual debate sponsored by Univision, but it quickly became a slugfest as Brown pummeled her on how she handled a former housekeeper who was an illegal immigrant – a case that had erupted just days earlier. Whitman fired Nicky Diaz Santillan in June 2009 after, she says, learning that her employee was...

Reporting from Fresno — California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled in a blistering dispute over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they met Saturday for their second debat

Fresno (Los Angles Times) -- Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled in a blistering dispute Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they met for the campaign’s first and only Spanish-language debate. The most intense exchange of the debate, held at Cal State Fresno, came when the moderator asked Whitman about the revelations earlier this week that she had employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan for nine years before firing her in 2009. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until just before the dismissal. Whitman turned to face Brown and accused Brown of being...

Meg Whitman easily bested Jerry Brown in a debate over the future of California on Tuesday night. So California Democrats had to hope that one of their reliable warhorses would saddle up and do some damage to Whitman with some kind of smear that diverted attention from the knock-down that brown suffered. Lawyer Gloria Allred turned up, right on schedule, with a headline grabbing, allegation-hurling press conference about the misdeeds of Whitman. Turns out that Whitman had hired a housekeeper a few years back, after being provided all the necessary documents. Whitman was very serious about complying with the law...

Poll: Meg Whitman Jerry Brown Debate Who Do You Think Won the Debate? Meg Whitman Jerry Brown Neither

(09-29) 14:33 PDT Washington - -- Hoping to arrest an ominous slide in two recent polls, California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina went on a full-scale attack against three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer as a tax-and-spend failure in a radio debate today in Pasadena, while Boxer painted Fiorina as an anti-environmental extremist out of sync with state voters.

If Tuesday's opening debate in the lieutenant governor's race is a sign of things to come, buckle up. Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado may be the incumbent, but he was on the attack early against Mayor Gavin Newsom, needling the mayor for his handling of the Cosco Busan oil spill, his wife's investments in oil companies and San Francisco's sanctuary city policy in a roughly 50-minute radio debate on KQED's Forum program. The mayor, for his part, tried to paint Maldonado as out of touch with the state on environmental issues and the embodiment of Sacramento political gridlock. Host Scott Shafer...

The debate starts in a few minutes, at 6:00 pm Pacific time. Didn't see a live thread yet, so I thought I'd start one.

At the end of Obamaland's Recovery Summer, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is betting that Californians want the federal government to keep growing. GOP challenger Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, is betting that Californians want more private-sector jobs, not more government jobs. At Wednesday night's televised debate at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Boxer -- anti-Wall Street -- faced off against Fiorina -- anti-Washington. Boxer hit Fiorina because she laid off 30,000 workers and outsourced jobs. And, after being fired, Fiorina received a $21 million severance package. Fiorina pointed to California's unemployment rate -- which exceeds 12 percent -- to...