I was checking out the differences in your Theme Skins on a blog page and came across a padding issue on the Material Theme's header and footer.

Seen here https://www.screencast.com/t/XRsEep7Ckn

Check it out:

Here's the Material Theme Skin:

Header https://www.screencast.com/t/ypgYoyxy

Footer https://www.screencast.com/t/32zlNClm

And here's the Theme Skin for both Ascend & Original:

Header https://www.screencast.com/t/A6Ei5OYi4

Footer https://www.screencast.com/t/lzHgKZ4PW4ts

Let me know your thoughts on this issue.

Also, as a side note,... I cleared my browser and page cache but it stayed the same.