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CA: Angelides vs Schwarzenegger debate NOW on CSPAN. LIVE THREAD

The only debate between Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic challenger Phil Angelides will start at 6 p.m. Saturday at Sacramento State University. Some details: BROADCAST: Will be carried live by about 40 television and 20 radio stations throughout the state. MODERATOR: The debate will be moderated by Stan Statham, president of the California Broadcasters Association and a Republican state legislator for 18 years. QUESTIONS: Questions were selected from a list of hundreds submitted by the public.

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic challenger Phil Angelides have agreed to debate each other on Oct. 7 on the campus of California State University, Sacramento. The Angelides camp lent its approval to the timing on Wednesday, despite misgivings over the format that will feature the candidates sitting at a table answering questions posed to them by a single moderator. Schwarzenegger's forces said one debate is plenty, and they derided the Angelides campaign for trying to impose 11th-hour conditions on an appearance to which the Democrat had agreed more than two months ago. The California Broadcasters Association is sponsoring the...

It looks like the one and only debate between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Phil Angelides is now set for Saturday, October 7. This afternoon, the governor's campaign accepted the invitation to debate Angelides in an event to be televised by the California Broadcasters Association from the campus of CSU Sacramento. The moderator will be CBA President Stan Statham, who says the one hour debate will be carried live by as many as 50 television and radio stations across the state. He says the format will be "extremely similar" to the CBA debate during the 2003 recall campaign... but with one big...