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2016 Postmortem

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Debates are historically inconsequential. onehandle Aug 2015 #1

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1. Debates are historically inconsequential.

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Thu Aug 20, 2015, 11:52 PM

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That presidential debates can be “game changers” is a belief almost universally held by political pundits and strategists. Political scientists, however, aren’t so sure. Indeed, scholars who have looked most carefully at the data have found that, when it comes to shifting enough votes to decide the outcome of the election, presidential debates have rarely, if ever, mattered.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/ten_miles_square/do_presidential_debates_really039413.php

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