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NOT EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER.(presidential debates between Al Gore and George W. Bush)(Brief Article)

The American Enterprise

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The Princeton Review has scored a number of presidential debates according to the sophistication of their language and concepts. It finds the latest Bush-Gore debate was conducted at a sixth- to seventh-grade level. That compares to a tenth-grade level in the Nixon-Kennedy ...

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