Pretty boring debate. I was expecting some big hits from both sides. Hopefully the last debate will deliver. Brown won on style points.

Ms.Warren is clearly not a "woman of color"! She ought be assamed of herself. Acting like she is a minority just to get ahead! She knows that only us,true minoritys need that stepping stone to get somewhere we don't necciceraly deserive to be. She ows us. Reperations.too

Warren won! Hands down. Warren had the facts about what Brown supports based on his votes in the Senate. Brown only had untrue accusations and comments about her salary. What she is being paid by Harvard has nothing to do with raising taxes to pay for education. Does Brown think Harvard is a state school?

Elizabeth Warren won because she exposed Senator Brown's specious claim that he voted for the Blunt Amendment because the health care law trampled on religious freedom. His cynical use of conscience to disguise a lock-step Republican vote is tiresome and against the interests of women. The contraception benefit is constitutional and a proper exercise of government power under Supreme Court precedent and under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Supreme Court's 1990 ruling in Employment Division v. Smith written by Brown's ideal justice, Justice Scalia, held that the First Amendment's protections do not mean individuals are free to violate valid laws by claiming a religious objection. Scalia wrote, to "make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land" would have the effect of allowing "every citizen to become a law unto himself." The contraceptive benefit does not violate the R.F.R.A statute because it does not "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion"and does advance the government's compelling interest in promoting women's health and autonomy. Churches, colleges, hospitals, charities and other religiously affiliated groups are exempt from having to provide coverage directly. The law does not interfere with religious practice, ceremony, or church governance. The bishops and their allies are arguing, abetted by the likes of Brown, that they are above the law and that their beliefs should trump societal needs.

Elizabeth Warren is a liar and has nothing to offer the working class. She is just like her boss.

Elizabeth Warren won because Senator Brown's complaint about gasoline prices is uninformed. U.S. gas prices are due to global market factors not federal economic or energy policies. Fact: domestic production has increased under the Obama administration, but it has had little effect on global prices because we have just 2 percent of the oil reserves. Even if U.S. oil companies upped production, they would sell to the highest global bidder (China?). That's the free market, right? Brown and Warren agree on sanctions against Iran to deter their nuclear program. The sanctions are limiting the supply of Iranian oil in world markets. Clearly, the U.S. can't unilaterally lower oil prices, but it can reduce consumption by using it more efficiently and by developing alternative fuel sources as Warren proposes. By buying more fuel efficient- cars and trucks (Brown should consider trading in his truck.), demand for gas would fall along with the burden of paying high prices. It makes no sense for Brown to blame the president for gas prices, where he has little control, but not give him credit for rising stock prices, and an improved labor market, areas where his policies and those of the Federal Reserve are having an effect. Don't forget gas prices rose steadily under the oil-friendly President George W. Bush's administration and fell at the end of his term along with the rest of the global economy. Demagoguery is what you use when you don't want to level with voters.

How truthful was Senator Brown when he said he voted against Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court because she lacked judicial experience? If Brown considers Justice Antonin Scalia his ideal justice as he said, it is puzzling why he did not value Scalia's opinion on the unimportance of judicial experience to a nominee's confirmation. Justice Scalia, an outspoken conservative, speaking on the subject of Kagan's nomination at the Second Annual Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture said, ". . . I am happy to see that this latest nominee is not a federal judge--and not a judge at all." When Justice Scalia went on the Court in 1986, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Byron White, and Justice Lewis Powell had never been judges. Again Scott Brown voted lockstep with the Republicans who didn't want a woman or a possible pro-choice justice. Now he tries to obscure his partisanship with a rationale that wasn't even important to his model justice. Oh so often Brown's claims of independence don't hold water. He distances himself from his Republican label. He backtracks. He equivocates. He feigns bipartisanship when his voting record shows otherwise. Wouldn't it be easier to stop pretending he's someone he's not? Most voters respect honesty.

Obviously voting in lockstep with Republicans is a mortal sin, but voting in lockstep with Democrats is a virtue... more taxes, more spending, and more regulations.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Carolyn your notions of what is constitutional much less free enterprise is highly suspicious. To say that we have seen adequate movement by the Obama admin. to deregulate domestic drilling is absolutely laughable. To suggest that there is nothing to be done domestically to greatly influence prices seems intentionally "naive" to serve your purposes. Have you heard of the drilling moretorium? Of the shut down pipeline? Regardless of where the U.S. oil refiners would sell their goods, the free market is about supply and demand. An increase in supply to any sector of the world economy will effect the world oil prices. We do have the ability to make a difference. I don't run lock step with either of there parties, but I wish Carolyn would stop trying to sound like she is doing anything more that touting the rediculous party line. Getting out of this is going to take a better intellect than one mind set will accomplish. All I know is that a gallon aof gas has gone up over 2 1/2 dollars in the past 4 years. Let's bring some sanity back to the conversation.

Mr. Napoli: When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the average price of regular gas was $1.45 a gallon. By June 2008, the price per gallon had risen to $4.05. By the end of his presidency, prices had fallen to $1.69, as prices fell with the tanking global economy. Surely you can agree that a global financial crisis is too high a price to pay for cheap gas. Still think oil-friendly presidents and oil-friendly policies can determine oil prices? About the Keystone XL pipeline, the president has approved a 500 mile section from Oklahoma to the gulf and has indicated he will green-light the rest of the project in 2013 after environmental and routing reviews are completed. Finally, the State Department has to sign off, and it hasn't determined the project is in the national interest. Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas has upped domestic production, but many residents near tracking sites are calling for strict over site for fear of ground water contamination. Recently, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business asked a panel of economists whether they agreed with this statement: "Changes in U.S. gasoline prices over the past 10 years have predominantly been due to market factors rather than U.S. federal economic or energy policies." Not one person disagreed. Even N. Gregory Mankiw, Governor Romney's economic advisor and a contributor to the NY Times Economic View column favors gradually raising the gas tax to reduce demand and trim the deficit.