what is up with " fact check" that seems to be the thing for this election . I guess everything got to much BS and now has to be factchecked

The Politics of ‘The Shallows’ - WSJ

the author Peggy Noonan is 66 and has seen quite a bit.

What impact has the modern media environment had on the 2016 campaign? I know that’s a boring sentence, but journalists and politicians talk about it a lot, journalists uneasily and politicians with frustration. The 24/7 news cycle and the million multiplying platforms with their escalating demands—for pictures, video, sound, the immediate hot take—exhaust politicians and staff, and media people too. Everyone is tired, and chronically tired people live, perilously, on the Edge of Stupid. More important, modern media realities make everything intellectually thinner, shallower. Everything moves fast; we talk not of the scandal of the day but the scandal of the hour, reducing a great event, a presidential campaign, into an endless river of gaffes.

follow the link - read the entire story--i think it hits home

How many election points do you win when you win the debate? Does it insure your win in the general election?

I think if 100 million people watched the debate, it matters. It shows interest.