On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:26 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:36 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Chris Wallace, 9/29 in Cleveland (traditional format) >> >> Susan Page, *USA Today*, 10/7 in Salt Lake (the veep candidates) >> >> Steve Scully, C-SPAN, 10/15 in Miami (the town hall) >> >> Kristin Welker, 10/22 in Nashville (traditional) >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/foxs-chris-wallace-nbcs-kristen-welker-c-spans-steve-scully-and-usa-todays-susan-page-tapped-as-presidential-debate-moderators >> (link) >> > > Does anybody think the debates this year will have any value. There's only > one thing we know for sure and it's that Trump will repeatedly lie and > refuse to back down even if the moderators show video proving it. I > guarantee you Trump is going to say that in health insurance policy he is > going to protect patients with pre-existing conditions and Biden will end > those protections in contravention to reality. Biden may even say that > Trump is lying but Trump will continue to repeat the lie. In that case how > meaningful is a debate? There is a lot in the way we do national elections > which is useless and even damaging but we stick with the status quo so that > we don't slip into chaos and end up with empty rituals instead. That's true > about the endless slog before the primaries, making Iowa and New Hampshire > the early primary states, the conventions, and now the debates. > Every election year, there are always surveys which reveal that a sizable percentage of people don’t make up their minds until after the debates. In my lifetime, I’ve never met one of them. I hope I never do. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFSnpEvwbsO8wdTomdS9x4n_rprz2xJnFC2ayA4t_KOQg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFSnpEvwbsO8wdTomdS9x4n_rprz2xJnFC2ayA4t_KOQg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4BxL8%3DgHztdFPe7CKLo0X1q77bmVXHMpUoNMmdNVUV9Jg%40mail.gmail.com.
