Obama and Romney may wish to slide the electorate into waiting for a flaw from the other side to claim victory in November or a renewed down the stretch race to the finish. The debates will be crucial, especially this first one for Romney this week. If it's any console to either, consider the feelings of the candidates the first time they had to go under the lights and camera in an election.
The Kennedy-Nixon Debates were legendary in that they set the template for how a debate should, and should not go. They set the standard for appearance on television for politicians that still exists, and told you how much you could say or should say, what to and not to wear, what kind of analysis should be considered and given.
The debates created new limits and reaches for candidates for national office in particular that had not been the case before. Just as modern politicians are learning the pitfalls of the internet as we plow along into the future.
Well, Tricky Dick did eventually learn that it's not a good idea for a politician to wear a light-colored suit on television. It makes them pale and weak, me thinks.
Whateva....Good luck at your upcoming debates, President Obama and Mr. Romney.
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these 2 represent the genesis of the stark changes and differences in the nation's political philosophies, or the 2 (s0-called) philosophies of Dem v GOP. they in retrospect may have had more style to it and understanding of it than anyone around today. Let's face it: Kennedy hired Bill Moyers and Nixon hired George Bush. I think that makes the point.
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