Last chance for a spirited debate
Washington Bureau Chief Bill Lambrecht writes that tonight’s third and final presidential debate offers the “best chance this season for a spirited and even dramatic debate.”
There were similar hopes for the second debate, Lambrecht says, but — perhaps because moderator Tom Brokaw didn’t use the audience as he could have — “candidates droned on with stump-speech excerpts and statistics.”
He writes that tonight’s format is “….almost certain to generate a free-wheeling encounter, if not fireworks.”
Jeff Greenfield writes on Slate.com that …”even more fortunately, my CBS colleague Bob Schieffer has a format that offers a real chance for something both more enlightening and entertaining than what we’ve seen so far.” Greenfield’s article is worth reading, because he offers some fun tips for Schieffer to guarantee a lively evening.
Are you expecting a spirited exchange or something less tonight?
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