1.   As the spat over the presidential debates plays out, House and Senate Democratic leaders are churning up their own election year debate controversy on Capitol Hill.

2.   A Houston pastor has uncovered an ironic historical twist that ties into the whole election controversy in Florida.

3.   But courts look at election controversies as important matters, and try to resolve them quickly.

4.   But now a truly profound interest is at stake in the election controversy.

5.   But the lawmakers will have an eye on the U.S. Supreme Court, where a ruling in favor of Bush could bring a swift end to the election controversy.

6.   Even so, a report due today from a European delegation investigating the election controversy could offer new openings to compromise.

7.   Gragg believes an election controversy could further alienate voters from taking part in the political process.

8.   However, the elder Bush agrees that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon seem to have eclipsed the election controversy altogether.

9.   Officials had worried that anxious Democrats would begin to desert the vice president as the election controversy dragged on.

10.   On Wednesday as she sat in her two-bedroom, two-bath condominium, the television hummed with news of the election controversy and she stewed.