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Originally Posted by richlevy
Bush would not have survived a three way debate with Kerry and McCain.
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That's the funny thing about debates, though. Take, for example, the first debate between Kerry and Bush. Everyone I know, on both political sides, agrees that Bush lost that debate hardcore. Yet somehow he won. Intellectuals want debates to mean a lot more than they do, because they feel that if a person is demonstrably shown to be a moron, then any thinking voter surely would not vote for that man.
But the debates mean little-to-nothing, ultimately, and the only good they'll ever really do is giving coverage to otherwise-unknown third party candidates, which I really wish would happen--except it won't, because the debates are
agreed upon by the candidates, and no Rep or Dem candidate would ever want to admit there were other options out there.