Instead, most instant polls found Gore holding the same narrow lead he did before the debate.
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In the remaining days before the debate, Palin is preparing for her own set of challenges.
Before the debate began MSPs voted 78-39 to allow the bill to start its emergency passage through the parliament.
An NBC poll the day before the debate had put the men in a dead heat, each with 47% support.
Gore's advantage was in dramatic view in the hours before the debate.
But no one registered to vote during the debate, according to volunteer Demarcus Peters, and most of the tables cleared out before the debate was over.
His speeches have gone viral on the internet, and many within the 17% who chose Cain in our poll may well have known about him before the debate.
Before the debate, the audience voted 24 percent in favor of the motion "The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated, " and 54 percent against, with 22 percent undecided.
Labour's environment spokeswoman Elaine Murray's amendment, which regretted the late publication of Delivering Planning Reform for Aquaculture on the Scottish Government website on the day before the debate, fell.
Jean-Daniel Levy, head of political polling at Harris Interactive, said before the debate that it would be "very, very difficult" at this point to change the course of the election.
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An invite to the event landed in my inbox just hours before the debate kicked off and, after a few hours of deliberation, I realized I had to attend.
Before the debate, Welsh Secretary Ron Davies made an impassioned plea to the conference not to tear itself apart in arguing over the mechanics of achieving gender balance in the assembly.
"There is a lack of assurance that any president of Afghanistan will have any commitment to women's issues and in particular towards this decree, " Ms Koofi told the BBC before the debate.
Right before the debate on abortion came one on whether a child's need for a father should continue to be a factor that fertility doctors must consider when deciding whom to treat.
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Before the debate, the DUP's Jim Wells questioned the necessity of discussing the amendment brought by Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy to allow two "regulated" hare coursing events to be maintained in Northern Ireland.
Labour thinks that the Scottish parliament can avoid this sort of error by having a more careful lawmaking process in which committees take evidence on bills from interested parties before the debate starts.
Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
Before the debate, David Cameron used a Commons statement to stress the importance of the EU to Britain's economy but insisted he shared his backbenchers' desire for fundamental reform, in an attempt to see over a major rebellion.
Mr. CLEMONS: Well, I think South Florida experienced a greater presence of Republican candidates reaching out to Hispanic voters in the days before, and today as well, following the - before and after the debate, much more than had happened before.
Iowa begins early voting on September 27, almost a week before the first debate on October 3.
But, luckily for Mr Blair, his resignation speech was delivered on the day before the great debate.
The Pew Research polling was done before the Republican debate last week.
In a letter to Mr Whittingdale, released just before the Commons debate began, Mr Hinton insisted that he had told the truth in his evidence.
Deputy Gillson has urged the Scrutiny Committee to put the report before the States for debate so the other Home Department members have a chance to have their say on the issue.
We thought it was vital to see this pristine wilderness for ourselves--and to share what we saw with the world--before the upcoming debate (and decision later this year) on how to control development there.
Members of the Delaware delegation said the Bush campaign clearly made its presence known after the proposal first won subcommittee approval, effectively killing the measure during debate before the general rules committee.
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"I am very proud to endorse my friend and fellow Republican -- a hero -- John McCain, " Giuliani said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley California, two hours before the Republican presidential candidates were to face each other in their final debate before the Super Tuesday contests next week.
Chatting to Republicans beforehand, there wasn't hysteria about their prospects, but real confidence that things are moving their way - a sea-change from a week before the first presidential debate, when Republicans I talked to were already plotting whom to blame when they lost the election.
There's a chance that congress will pull the rug out from under this whole debate before the court can act.
Politicians attending the opening of the Basque parliament held a minute's silence before a debate on the swearing in of moderate nationalist regional president Juan Jose Ibarretxe.
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