Showing posts with label debates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debates. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Congress: Neither Productive Nor Deliberative

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A  number  of  posts  have discussed  congressional   capacity , legislative productivit y, and deliberation . Moira Warburton and  Ally J. ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Campus Climate

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Daniel Stid : Recurring Knight Foundation / Ipsos surveys of college students show that the proportion of students who say their free speec...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Real Debate is Missing on Capitol Hill

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  Kevin Kosar at The Hill : Major debates on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives are increasingly rare . This is not by ac...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Virtual Debate, 1960

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"I'm Bill Shadel ABC News...The 2 candidates will not be sharing same platform. In NY John F Kennedy. Separated by 3,000 miles in L...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Dab

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Four years ago, Rep. Loretta Sanchez did a "Call Me Maybe" video. At The Los Angeles Times , Christine Mai-Duc reports on the Ca...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

"Chocker"

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 Breanne Deppisch and Elise Viebeck report at The Washington Post : THE BIG IDEA: The consensus that Donald Trump badly lost the first d...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Cloistering in Academia and Journalism

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Arthur Brooks writes at The New York Times : Unfortunately, new research also shows that academia has itself stopped short in both the und...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Twitter, Debates, and Deliberation

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The Cornell Chronicle reports: Social scientists’ analysis of 290,119,348 tweets from 193,522 “politically engaged” Twitter users during...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Lincoln at Galesburg

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President Obama has frequently compared himself to Abraham Lincoln,  at least by implication .  On one occasion, he erred by using a spuriou...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Get Hoffa

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On September 26, 1960, in his first debate with Richard Nixon , JFK said:  "I'm not satisfied when I see men like Jimmy Hoffa - in...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Lincoln-Douglas Debates? Not Exactly

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Robert Costa writes at National Review Online : Newt Gingrich may have run in the wrong cycle. The former House speaker, long a proponent...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Political Videos Online

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Political videos are big this year, as Pew reports: 55% of registered voters have watched political videos online this election season. W...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Bayonets

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ABC News reports: The most memorable line of Monday night’s debate was President Obama’s pointed “horses and bayonets” jab at Mitt Romney ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Names and Words Not Mentioned in the Foreign Policy Debate

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The transcript of last night's debate reveals some odd omissions in what was supposed to be a discussion of foreign policy and national ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Debate Rules

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Time has previously-undisclosed groundrules for the debates. The 2012 Debates - Memorandum of Understanding Between the Obama and Romne...
Friday, October 5, 2012

The President and the Bubble

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In What It Takes , a great book about the 1988 presidential race, Richard Ben Cramer noted that high-level politicians live in a "bubbl...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Reaction Shots

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Eight years ago, the Democratic National Committee made an ad featuring reaction shots of President George H.W. Bush in his first debate w...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Deliberation and the Language of Congress

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The Sunlight Foundation has published an analysis of congressional rhetoric .  Lisa Mascaro writes at The Los Angeles Times : If it sounds ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Line by Line

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During the debate tonight, Mitt Romney promised that he would go through the budget line by line to root out wasteful spending.  The phrasi...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Gingrich Bingo, 1.3

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I n time for the this week's debates, here is an updated   list of Newt Gingrich's favorite words and phrases .  With the list in ha...