The first article about the political debate is called, "Taxes, health care dominant debate." This article was published in The Spokesman-Review.

In Boston around 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Al Gore and George W. Bush squared off to debate issues that may change the history of our country. In the first of three debates that could change the course of a tight presidential election, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly criticized one of the centerpieces of George W. Bush's campaign as a tax cut for the wealthy and Bush struck back by accusing Gore time and again of skewing facts.

As the two debated which candidate has the best plan for prescription drug coverage, Gore accused Bush of providing coverage to only 5% of seniors, while Gore said he would cover 100 percent. The five percent of Bush's plan are the wealthy. Gore claimed that Bush's plan would take 4 to 5 years to cover the average to poor people on Medicare. Bush argued this

In this article there are a lot of examples of logos. The article is mostly written about an analysis of the debate. The logic reasoning in this article is the evaluation of the writer's point of view of the debate. It is written towards voters, middle age to older people. The piece seeks to elicit from the readers on who to vote for and who the writer feels is the best candidate. The writer feels that there is no real obvious candidate, each man fought equally in the debate. The impression that this piece makes on the reader is that both candidates feel strongly about their own ideas. Their ideas dramatically on certain issues, for example social security and tax cuts. The facts that are used are when the debate occurred and what was said. Yes, there are logical fallacies made in the article.

Gore mentioned 11 times that Bush's proposed tax cut would provide the greatest benefits to the wealthiest. As a result, would imperil the nation's prosperity. Once again, Gore played the champion of the little guy. Gore pointed out that Bush has never denied that the rich would get the biggest chunk of the tax cuts.

point claiming that Gore was lying. One of the strongest clashes occurred over Gore's oft stated charge that the bulk of Bush's tax cut would

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