The Catastrophe in Cleveland: The First Presidential Debate

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this installment of our “Election 2020” series featuring six Northern Kentucky University students, we discuss the first presidential debate, held on Tuesday September 29 in Cleveland, Ohio. Topics we cover include: if debates matter and if this one might matter more than usual whether the American public wants substantive policy debate who ‘won’ the debate - and what winning a debate means where Trump and Biden were strongest and weakest what each candidates hoped to accomplish, and whether they were successful Be part of the discussion on the Politics Guys ‘BipartisanPolitics’ community on Reddit. Join the conversation on The Politics Guys Facebook page. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the podcast, go to patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.4	The government, hug the government, love, the government, love the government, love the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:45.0	I'm Michael Barronowski, Professor of Political Science at North Kentucky University.
0:49.8	Today, in part, well, I don't know what part it is, but we've been going out for a while, our election 2020 series.
0:55.5	We will be discussing the first presidential debate, which was held on Tuesday, September, not 29th in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
1:04.8	But before we do get to that, I want to let everyone know that next week's episode will once again be coming out on a Thursday instead of our
1:11.7	regular Wednesday release so that we can discuss the vice presidential debate, which is scheduled
1:16.7	to be held on Wednesday, October 7. All right, so we can just go ahead and get right to it here.
1:23.7	And let's start with sort of a meta question. There's a lot made out of debates. Certainly,
1:29.1	there's been a lot of media coverage and there'll be a lot more. But a bigger question is, well,
1:34.5	how much do these debates really matter? So let's start with that. How much do you think that
1:41.3	these debates really matter? Faith?
1:45.1	I think in terms of how it's going to sway the outcome of the election,
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