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You seem to be under the impression that there is anything that Hillary can say that will nullify all the crimes and lies she has committed. I can think of no excuse or apology that would negate the fact that she has received a pass on all the fouls she has perpetrated. I will not vote for her, therefore my vote would have to go to Trump. SO, why wait. I will watch the debates, IF there is nothing better to watch. I will watch them for entertainment value only. But, like football if one of them refuses to stand for the National Anthem, I will turn off the debates and not watch them.............  |
Presidential debates and their effects: An updated research roundup - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource
Reflecting on the Obama-McCain race of 2008, scholars Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Jeffrey A. Gottfried note that in a “transformed media environment” — where traditional news has ceded ground to non-mainstream media sources — the televised debates continued to play a unique role, as they have through history. “For almost five decades, studies have confirmed the power of presidential debates to increase voter knowledge, and 2008 was no exception,” they write. “The debates’ two-sided clash of competing ideas, unmediated by interpretation from reporters, spiked voter knowledge.
In these often disparaged encounters, the presidential and vice presidential nominees took on the deceptions perpetrated by the other side, including those on health care and taxing proposals.”