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Presidential Hopefuls Target Bush in Debate

NPR | By Mara Liasson

Published April 27, 2007 at 6:00 AM EDT

All eight Democratic presidential candidates were on stage Thursday night in South Carolina for their first debate in the 2008 run for the White House. The event was in a state that's having an early presidential primary and has a large number of African-American and military voters.

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Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.

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