The next presidential election is over a year away. Between now and then just how many debates are you willing to listen to? Are you even interested? Debates used to be a real attention grabber, but not anymore. Just like anything else, too much of a good thing - isn’t.

“There was a time when running for president of the United States meant visiting with voters in New Hampshire living rooms, eating your way across the Iowa State Fair, delivering speeches and raising money.”

“These days, running for president has also become a marathon test of an altogether different skill: debating. This campaign has turned into a mind-numbing blur of 90- and 120-minute debates and forums that has consumed the Democratic candidates in particular. They are trudging from coast to coast at the beck and call of television networks, unions, state political parties and whoever else may want to throw them together on stage in front of a television camera and a blinking red and green light.”
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