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Sunday, October 19, Speaker Tom Craddick and his District 82 opponent, Bill Dingus, squared off in a televised debate in Midland. Candidates discussed issues from the merits of CHIP, TxDOT, property taxes, and lobbyists. The surprise at the debate, however, was that Leslie Ward, a vice president and lobbyist for AT&T, was allowed to sit at the table with local journalists and have a turn at asking questions. AT&T was the debate's official sponsor, and its Political Action Committee (PAC) recently donated an even 50 G to Craddick's own PAC three days before the debate.

• Stakes are high as Obama and McCain head for final debate
• President Bush says he's confident that the economy will come back "in the long run"
• Hurricane Omar nears Puerto Rico with 80-mph winds

• The second presidential debate: "remarkably sedate", "low-voltage", "tedious"
• The Federal Reserve and other world banks enact an emergency rate cut
• Work with glowing jellyfish leads to Nobel Prize in chemistry

...Obama delineates his popularity, and receives the longest applause yet. Hillary shifts, the glow in her eyes flickers. Something has changed, and she can taste it. Maybe the phrase that crosses her mind is 'tipping point'.