Presidential Debates Rarely Matter, Except If Someone Royally Screws Up

The three presidential and one vice presidential debates have been set. You can find the details on them at Investors.com. In that piece Andrew Malcolm notes: The political reality though is that debates, like college mid-terms, seem important at the time but end up mattering less at the end. Arguably, in hindsight only two presidential debates over their 52 years have been decisive: The first in 1960 when Richard Nixon’s make-up and shaver failed him on black-and-white TV while the country discovered a young, well-spoken senator in John F. Kennedy. The other occurred in the final days of the 1980 … Continue reading Presidential Debates Rarely Matter, Except If Someone Royally Screws Up