Candidates get unpleasant in contest for august office

By David Shapiro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 21, 2012

~~<p>Lincoln and Douglasthey weren't, but Linda Lingle and Mazie Hirono debated their hearts out anyway as we plant tongue in cheek and "flASHback" on the week's news that amused and confused:</p>
<p>» Senate candidates Hirono and Lingle stung each other with increasingly nasty attacks in a series of televised forums. Most stung were voters, as it sank in that one of these two will be our next U.S. senator.</p>
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Lincoln and Douglasthey weren't, but Linda Lingle and Mazie Hirono debated their hearts out anyway as we plant tongue in cheek and "flASHback" on the week's news that amused and confused:

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