Candidates decry debate shutout

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Do not adjust your television screen. There are 28 candidates for the U.S. Senate, and the field won't be down to two until Sept. 12.

But when the first televised debate in the race is shown tomorrow night, only Democratic frontrunners U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin and former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume will be present.

The rules of who can participate in the two-hour debate have been set since last fall, but candidates who won't be on the stage are complaining that the League of Women Voters is muzzling them.

American University professor Allan Lichtman, one...