debates

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  10/26/2020
  

  To Understand The Spectacle Of Presidential Debates, Look Back To 1960, Says Harvard Historian

  Fred Logevall, author of a new JFK biography, discusses the 1960 presidential debates between Kennedy and Nixon. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/6/2020
  

  VP Debates are Often Forgettable – But Dan Quayle Never Recovered from His 1988 Debate Mistake

  by Chris Lamb

  "Dan Quayle was a one-term vice president whose greatest contribution to politics came in a VP debate. In the dog-eat-dog world of politics, no politician since has wanted to end up on the Quayle end of the fire hydrant."

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• 9/27/2020
  

  Debates Are Unpredictable

  by Ron Faucheux

  In a close election, a debate can matter, and debates are lost more than they are won. Some examples from the television era of campaigning should give viewers a sense of how to judge Biden and Trump on Tuesday night. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  Winners and Losers from the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden Debate

  Biden drove home the point that he would be a steady, pragmatic hand at an uncertain time.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  8-6-15
  

  Political Debates Weren’t Always This Exciting

  by Josh Zeitz

  Would you want to listen to three-and-a-half hours of Abraham Lincoln?