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What Presidential Debates that never happened would you want to see?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:35 pm
Three US elections since the Nixon/Kennedy debates took place with no debate between the Democrat an Republican nominees. Of those three, which do you think would have been the most interesting or been able to effect any part of the election? (2 where blow outs)
1964 Senator Barry Goldwater vs President Lyndon Johnson
1968 Vice President Hubert Humphrey vs Richard Nixon
1972 President Richard Nixon vs Senator George McGovern
1964 Senator Barry Goldwater vs President Lyndon Johnson
1968 Vice President Hubert Humphrey vs Richard Nixon
1972 President Richard Nixon vs Senator George McGovern
This post was edited on 12/18/16 at 8:26 pm
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Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:36 pm to Lordofwrath88
2016 - The one where Clinton wasn't fed the questions beforehand.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:36 pm to Lordofwrath88
Trump vs. Obama
The amount of shite talking would've been hilarious.
The amount of shite talking would've been hilarious.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:37 pm to Scruffy
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2016 - The one where Clinton wasn't fed the questions beforehand.
"Trumped Up Tickle Down Economics, yes I thought up of that on my own, just now."
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:37 pm to Scruffy
Bernie vs Trump would be the best debate ever.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:38 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:38 pm to TidenUP
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Trump vs. Obama
Obama has too many rehearsed answers. Bernie wouldn't give a frick about that like Trump doesn't. That would have been the best debate ever.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:53 pm to Lordofwrath88
It would require a DeLorean, but I'd like to see a debate between Senator Obama and President Obama.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:59 pm to Lordofwrath88
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1968 Vice President Hubert Humphrey vs Richard Nixon
This one. When the candidates are as far apart as they were in '64 or '72, debates tend to be pointless. When candidates have a lot of overlapping similarities, then debates can be useful in clarifying certain contrasts.
By the way, those 1976 debates between Ford and Carter were probably some of the most boringly civil in U.S. presidential campaigning history.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:08 pm to Lordofwrath88
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1964 Senator Barry Goldwater vs President Lyndon Johnson
May have been able to close the gap - Goldwater wasn't the lunatic he was portrayed to be by LBJ. Probably wouldn't have changed the outcome.
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1968 Vice President Hubert Humphrey vs Richard Nixon
Interesting, but you would have had to have Wallace in there, too, I think. This is a relative blow out, too - if forced to vote for either Humphrey or Nixon, most Wallace voters would have held their nose and gone with Nixon - it's a complex issue. Humphrey was pretty wonkish - not as much as Stephenson from a decade before, but pretty bookish/wonkish. America craves alpha leadership.
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1972 President Richard Nixon vs Senator George McGovern
McGovern was about as far left as we had leading a major party's ticket until 2008 (yes, including 1984) - debates wouldn't have changed that. 1972 was still 1972.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:08 pm to Lordofwrath88
He didn't run, but Biden vs Trump would've been the greatest debate ever.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:12 pm to Lordofwrath88
Any of those years with George Wallace debating them all.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:20 pm to Lordofwrath88
quote:Jefferson vs Adams
What Presidential Debate that never happened (64, 68, 72) would you want to see?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:28 pm to NC_Tigah
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Jefferson vs Adams
would have been epic.... they would have written songs about it.
This post was edited on 12/18/16 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:05 pm to OMLandshark
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Bernie vs Trump would be the best debate ever.
I think biden trump would have even been better.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:23 pm to Fab4Freddy
Goldwater vs McGovern would have been legendary
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