Presidential Debate Analysis

Another four years another presidential debate. Before I go on to the current debates let me state a few facts about past ones. The Lincoln and Douglas debate was in important because it started Lincoln presidential career. The Debates lasted from August 21 -- October 15. There where seven of them, with two days to two weeks in between. Each debate lasted three hours; first candidate spoke for one hour; the second for one and a half hours; the first replying for a half hour. Candidates alternated going first. The topics involved where primarily slavery and the Union. Other important debates were the '48 and '57. They were the only debates before 1960; there were no presidential debates between 1960 and 1976. In

In my opinion, on the first 2016 Presidential Debate, Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton did have a fair debate about topics of the host’s, Lester Holt, choice. Hillary Clinton did, in fact, win. I think this for many reason but some in particular stand out to me.

The race for the White House is a long and tedious process that is mobbed by campaigns events and stump speeches, but more importantly candidates are givens the opportunity to contrast their ideas with other candidates in televised debates. On January 17, 2016, I tuned into the Democratic Presidential Debate that was hosted by NBC News in Charleston, SC and moderated by Lester Holt. This debate included all three Presidential contenders: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley. All candidates made reference to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their opening statements because of the King holiday being the following day. Each candidate tried their best to make an appeal to continuing the work of Dr. King by ensuring justice

In the beginning of the debate, both Trump and Clinton had a fierce attitude. The candidates had brought up many past events. They debated against each other`s plans to create a better country. One of the main

What topics are labeled important enough to be talked about during presidential debates? Topics such as terrorism and national security; the economy; jobs and employment; and the Affordable Care Act and Healthcare all managed to be the center of attention during all debates. What topics were almost entirely ignored? Topics such as gun policy; social issues like LGBT rights and abortion; and the environment and climate change were put to the side to instead talk about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal or the sexual assault charges brought up against Donald Trump. While terrorism and national security; the economy; jobs and employment; and the Affordable Care Act and Healthcare are all very important topics, but one topic that was ignored and should have been at the forefront of the debate was climate change.

The second presidential debate demonstrates an indecisive clash between opposite personalities; the rehearsed demeanor of Hillary Clinton juxtaposes the raw audacity of Donald Trump. Despite their dissimilar appearance, the candidates employ like strategies – they deflect accusations and criticize their adversary. Clinton suffers to succeed in this format. Neither knowledge of policy nor experience in office effectively counter accusations against personal character. This observation is nonetheless irreverent. Although Trump dominates the debate format, he alienates the electorate.

The debate I am choosing to watch is the Republican Presidential Debate, and my focus would be on examining Donald Trump’s portions. The debate of course, is about Republican candidates who are running for president (intended for the next four years) debating to the public on who is a better choice to vote for. In the broad sense, Republicans takes on conservative stand on issues. They believe the federal government shouldn’t play a big role in the citizen’s lives. Most Republican wants lower taxes in addition to less government spending on social programs such as healthcare, food Stamps and education. The portions that I am looking at would be the part where Trump talks about building a border wall and also where he speak of immigration. It

If a person was trying to positively portray themselves, you would expect that they would try to convey themselves in a professional manner and use good communication skills. Unfortunately, the communication that came across in the debate between Senator Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump did not always convey professionalism. There were a few points in the speech where both candidates respected the other, but the majority of the debate consisted of interruptions, rude remarks to and about each other, and the used self-serving bias to make the other person sound bad. The most prominent good communication principals and bad communication aspects that I saw during the debate were that the candidates recognized when the other person was right

As the running mates to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took the stage to further their platform and earn voters, millions tuned in hopes of further solidifying their choice for President of the United States of America. The Vice-Presidential debate was moderated by Elaine Quijano, CBSN anchor and former CNN journalist, who Dan Gainor of FOX claims to have been left from the very beginning (“Another Debate”, 2016). According to numerous articles as well as commentary by FOX news affiliates, Mike Pence was viewed as the winner of the Vice-Presidential debate over Tim Kaine by this Conservative news outlet. The focus of much discussion was the numerous interruptions that occurred throughout the debate resulting in Quijano herself, being spoken over on multiple occasions. An unofficial Fox News count identified Pence as being interrupted by Tim Kaine over 39 times where as Kaine was interrupted around 19times by Pence (“Pence Trumps”, 2016). Elaine Quijano drew criticism from the conservative identifiers for allowing the debate format to get out of hand. From the onset of the debate, Tim Kaine stepped into the role of the aggressor by going after Pence on the hot topics relative to the Trump campaign on items such as the release of Donald Trump’s taxes. FOX news claims that with a factor of 8-1,” Quijano peppered Pence with tough question after tough question and reserved one for Kaine”. Dan Gainor identifies the debate as being

First presidential debate took place in Hofstra University in Hempstead New York on 26th September. Anchor NBC nightly news, Lester Holt is the moderator of this presidential debate.

What do I think? After reading NPRs fact check of the third presidential debate I maintain a different mindset than when I first endured the debate of our two presidential candidates. Although seeing the debate on tv might cause some voters to sway towards one candidate rather than the other it is apparent to me now that we are not always getting the full story. I am not as thoroughly educated as some of my peers or voters I do have an opinion on who I would vote for if I could and if I hadn't read this article my decision would have been made under false pretenses under the debate itself not the tangible evidence. This is a well known problem for americans voting without true understanding for the issues or for the suggested solutions, I didn't

After watching thirty minutes of both the Republican debate and the Democrat debate it is very evident the differences between the political parties. The Republican race is very different from the democratic debate because of the level of competition. After only a brief time in watching both races it is evident who the moderators feel are front runners in this year's election. The Republican debate was very competitive because of the larger amount of people running. Each candidate did not have enough time to fully debate topics because of there are just too many people up at the podium. Some of the Republican candidates make it priority to follows Reagan's rule of talking about the fellow candidates but, others such as Bush and Trump try

According to the article, Hillary Clinton won the debate. The author claims that 62% of voters concluded that Hillary Clinton won the debate compared to 27% who favored Donald Trump. The article also illustrates that an array of post-debate coverage indicated Clinton’s success, such as betting markets and post-debate coverage on television.

Trump won the first presidential debate between himself and Hillary Clinton based on the criteria of, who had the least amounts of interruptions between the candidates and the moderator, who had the least amount of meaningless insults in their argument against each other, and the last one being who provided the most ethical, logical, and emotional appeals in their argument. All of these factors were the criteria for the winning of this debate, for the reason of the criteria providing judgment of debate etiquette and the inclusion of the needed elements of a persuasive argument. This criteria leads to the conclusion that Donald Trump won the first presidential debate.

Cain Stevenson --”Hello, and welcome to the 78th presidential debate held on channel 13, Fox News. Today we have a very special debate, all five presidential candidates are with us today in the sold out Gillette stadium. And boy can you hear the the screams of the 70000 fans cheering on their candidates. This stadium is filled to the brim with die hard fans ready to chug down a beer and sucker punch a man 4 times their size for their candidate. Massive crowds have formed outside hoping that they might get a chance to see the candidates,in person arriving. Let me tell you the last seventy five debates have been a brutal showdown, and over 17 candidates have left the ring blooded and heart broken. I am your moderator, Cain Stevenson and let