Bush quoted, "The Governor is the chief executive. " According to BBC America news, the chief executive or governor of Texas has less power than of all of the 50 states. Bush stopped finger-pointing for a while, but Gore kept it going. Bush put fuzzy math on Gore's report card. In this debate, Vice President Al Gore won by 46%.

In round 2 of the debates, the Vice Presidential candidates kept it calm cool and collected with moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN, Joseph Lieberman, the Vice Presidential candidate and Dick Cheney, the Republican candidate. Lieberman attacked Bush but not Cheney. Cheney wanted to stop personal attacks. Cheney got 10 points in my book for his joke. To not bring up Joe Lieberman's singing. According to V.P. candidate Dick Cheney 70% of 4th graders in poor cities can't read. In a way Lieberaman and Cheney agreed on testing children. The Gore and Lieberman administration wants to make public schools the best in the world. Cheney and Lieberman want to leave social security surplus behind. There was a little bit of comedy. As CNN reports they kept their gloves on.

In round 3 of the debate the style was informal. The chairs were spread farther apart than the Vice Presidential debate. The candidates learned that being calm and cool like the Vice Presidential debate can get the polls up. Bush did so. Bush thought that Cheney did a good job. Gore also did not start attacking. Bush and Gore agreed that our country should understand freedom and be humble. One key issue was U.S. military force. Gore supported Grenada, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Persian Gulf, Haiti, Panama, and at the time, Somalia (Som-mal-ea). But now he would not support it. Gore did not support Lebanon (Leb-o-non). Bush supported Lebanon, Grenada, Bosnia and Kosovo. He did not support Haiti or Somalia because it was just nation building. In this debate Bush won with 44%. .

In the last and final debate it was a town hall style where people would ask their questions to the candidates. Once again Jim Lehrer of the news hour was the moderator. On this night there was a moment of silence for Missouri Governor Pat Carnahan. Gore wanted to have a patients' bill of rights so your H.M.O. company can't tell you what hospital you can go to. Bush says he has an advanced patients bill of rights. As Bush said in the other debates he wanted to bring Democrats and Republicans together. Which I think is hard. Bush said Texas is the first state to allow people to sue H.M.O. companies. If you were not given proper care. You must get through a review board first. One picture sure to be in newspapers is when Gore is 2 feet away from Bush. Staring straight at Bush. Bush is against price controls. Gore was like the first debate in full gear, attacking Bush. Gore hit a key issue that the drug companies are paying too much money to advertise their drugs like making pens, mouse pads, etc. Gore hit another key issue to bring more competition between the drug companies. Then they will have to lower prices. Gore attacked Bush saying Bush wanted to have benefits for taxpayers. In this debate Bush won with 44%.