About
90 minutes before the vice-presidential debate started, the Republican National
Committee posted a press release claiming that Donald Trump's running mate, Mike
Pence, "was the clear winner of the debate." That sort of stunt and Tim
Kaine's painfully unfunny and hyper-scripted one-liners help explain why the
Republican and Democratic candidates are disliked by large majorities and why
party identification is at or near historic lows. Full debate transcript
here. We don't simply need politicians talking over one another like
guests on a public-access cable show, we need more voices on the stage having
substantive discussions about the future of the country. We didn't get that with
the vice-presidential debate and it's unlikely we'll get it in next week's
presidential debate either. Produced by Paul Detrick, Nick Gillespie, and
Joshua Swain. Narrated by Gillespie. About 50 seconds.
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