The running theme of the night was the duality of games and the difficult balancing act Facebook is playing.

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The historic nature of Obama's candidacy, the first African-American to receive a major party's presidential nomination, was a theme of the night.

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In Bedford, Iowa, Lena Rinehart, 65, missed part of the debate because she fell asleep--"When I get in my recliner, it doesn't take too long"--but she woke up soon enough to hear Gore's main theme of the night.

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