Senate Candidates Square Off In 5th Debate
Some voters wish race would end
Alison Storm
News Channel 7
Saturday, October 23, 2004

The signs are everywhere. DeMint in one yard, Inez in another, as neighborhoods become the battle ground for this key Senate race. Mike Corbin, a teacher for almost 30 years, is pulling for Tenenbaum. "I think Mr. DeMint is very conservative and I think Tenenbaum is more mainstream what people really believe in," he says.

But on a similar Spartanburg street, Richard Harris is throwing his support towards DeMint. "I don't have any doubt he's the better of the two candidates," he says.

While these two voters back different candidates both are sick of the attack ads bombarding their living rooms. We asked what Harris thinks of the attack ads. "I think they're lies. Flat out lies," he says. "I can't remember when we didn't have attack ads," explains Corbin. "I think it might be one of the reasons there's so much apathy about voting."

The attacks continued during the 5th debate match up as the candidates argued over education, jobs and taxes. "I have targeted ways we can spur economic growth by rolling back middle class taxes," says Democrat Inez Tenenbaum, "investing in our companies and giving tax incentives for companies to grow." Republican Jim DeMint argues, "the president's tax cuts are working, Miss Tenenbaum doesn't support making them permanent. I do. She supports keeping a few of them but raising taxes on the small businesses that are creating our jobs."

These candidates have one more debate and just a little more than a week to go before the yard signs come down and voters pick a winner.


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