Debates are a tradition in American politics. But in this year's midterms, there are fewer events where candidates share a stage.
The debate stage is set ahead of the start of the second and final presidential debate Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.Fall means crunching leaves, college football, pumpkin spice and sweater weather. In election years, it's always meant something else as well — the arrival of debate season.
Abraham Lincoln participated in a series of legendary debates with incumbent Sen. Stephen A. Douglas. With the introduction of television, public perception was based as much on how the candidates looked as it was what they said. Kennedy wore make-up and appeared much more cool and collected, while the camera caught Nixon wiping sweat from his lip and brow and appearing in need of a shave.
Yepsen, who has also served as a debate moderator on the presidential level and for local offices, explained these days campaigns often see more risk than reward in debating. Perry's campaign never recovered, and his viral moment lives on, on the internet as one of many cautionary tales to future campaigns.
It is not just on display on the national state. This year, at a primary debate for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate in March, Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons got into an argument. The faced off at the front of the riser, shouting at each other, literally bumping chests and using obscenities until the moderator broke it up.
John Selleck, a Republican strategist in Michigan, says the fact that mainstream media outlets are no longer as dominant as they once were lessens the shame that used to be a concern if a candidate skipped a debate. Democratic strategist Tara McGowan — who now runs a left leaning digital news site — thinks Hobbs is making a mistake. According to McGowan, it's important to debate even when your opponent has extreme positions.
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