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Political Debates: Useful or Just Political Theater

Political Debates: Useful or Just Political Theater?

Things have certainly changed since 1960 and the Kennedy-Nixon televised debate. This debate is often cited as the ‘first’ televised presidential debate…it is not. The actual first televised ‘debate’ of presidential candidates took place in May of 1956 between two Democratic Party primary candidates, Tennessee Sen. Estes Kefauver and former Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson.1 The…