Debate 101: Five Tips to Equip Viewers to Watch, Analyze Presidential Contests
- The Liddell Group Staff
- Sep 16, 2015
- 1 min read
“[J]okes are usually pre-planned and are designed to provide good sound bites to the media. Humor is persuasive, but as voters, are we really interested in a candidate’s comedic timing or ability to tell a good joke? We shouldn’t be.
It’s easy for a candidate to point out problems with the status quo, or ‘the ways things are.’ It’s much more difficult to offer up a solution or alternative way of solving those problems. Many of the candidates will do just that – offer a blistering criticism of the current system without offering viable alternatives.”
Written ahead of the first presidential debate of the 2016 season, hosted by FOX News, Baylor University's award-winning debate coach, Matthew Gerber, gives timeless advice that rings true for all subsequent debates, regardless of party, year, or election.
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"Debate 101: Expert Offers Five Tips to Equip Viewers to Watch, Analyze Presidential Contests"
by Matthew Gerber, Director, Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum (Baylor University)
Baylor University l August 5, 2015
http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=158873
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