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    Configuration of Reality: 45th Presidential Debate Jay Van Bavel’s 2016 article addresses an important and relevant issue: voters’ deeply divided perceptions of presidential candidates. According to Bavel, approximately 70 million viewers tuned in to watch the final presidential debate on October 19, 2016. In theory, one would be valid in assuming that while processing such an event, everyone should be experiencing the same reality—all are watching the same debate, hearing the same words said by

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    “The Second Presidential Debate” argues that integrity is the most important quality of a president, and this argument is shown throughout the debate through both the candidate's choice to undermine each other's character. Though it seems as if both candidates use illogical arguments to persuade the audience, in all reality they use many logical fallacies and appeals to help make their argument better, and their opponent’s seem weaker. At the beginning of the presidential debate the opening question

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    PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE Many thoughts are racing; many people are concerned. Who will be the new president of the United States? Us Americans will choose the 45th president of the United States on November 8, 2016. So sad to say that President Barack Obama is ineligible for re-decision because of the term breaking points set up in the Constitution, but never will the Americans forget the amazing job he has done. Will Donald trump who referred to ‘race man’ ‘money hunger’ win. Will Mrs. Hillary

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    The Vice Presidential Debate took place at Longwood University located in Farmville, Virginia moderated by, Elaine Quijano. Senator Tim Kaine and Governor Mike Pence both sat at a table with Quijano. The debate consisted of 9 segments, each 10 minutes in length and 2 minutes for each candidate to respond. Topics discussed in this debate include questions about Donald Trump's temperament, the economy, Social Security, police and race relations, nuclear weapons, abortion and religious faith. It was

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    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

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    A constructive national debate is something that is quite important to the functioning of the American system of democracy. A simple definition of democracy offered by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is that democracy is “a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting” (Merriam-Webster). Now, at a time of heightened awareness from many American people, the political debates in this country don’t seem to be providing them with good cogent arguments. Instead they are filled with fallacies

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    election in full throttle, Kennedy and Nixon’s presidential debates of 1960 are still very much a part of American democracy. Televised presidential debates have become a backbone in an American election. Although these debates are now considered a norm in American politics, this has not always the case. Even after the first time a presidential debate was held between presidential candidates from across the aisle, it took another 16 years for another debate to occur. It is highly doubtful that either

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    I sat down on my couch on the crisp night of September, 26th, it was very much like the calm before the storm. My dad and I awaited for the first Presidential debate to begin. We flipped through channels to decipher which channel to view the debate on, and were eventually redirected to Fox News. Genuine American man Donald Trump entered the stage, meanwhile as did Hillary Clinton, with that trademarked fake smile of hers. I witnessed them awkwardly meet in the middle of the stage, which I believe

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    Presidential Debates

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    Television and the purpose of it has changed in a negative way throughout the years. At the beginning, we took advantage of being able to be a part of the presidential elections and acquire the facts about what truly mattered during the debates. Lately we’ve started to look at what the screen is showing us rather than concentrating on what it was actually telling us. We as people have begun to want to appoint our official leaders based on who looks better and television has helped feed this desire

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    The Presidential Debates

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    The main goal of this article was to discover if the televised presidential debates increased the amount of knowledge of campaign issues amongst uneducated voters. One of the downfalls of this campaign overall, was that it seemed too artificial and staged to some of the voters. It was during this election, that many print media providers were called out for simply focusing on the “horse race” as opposed to the political issues at hand. In hope to contradict this claim, evidence was “found that more

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