What Did We Learn?
Published: October 25th, 2012
By: Shawn Magrath

What did we learn?

On Monday, the final presidential debate aired in front of more than 60 million voters. For the last time, two viable presidential candidates stood on the same stage to take jabs at one another and criticize policies, both foreign and domestic, while making a case of how our nation essentially is broken and that they’re the only candidate with the know-how to fix it.

So now that the debates are in the history books, what are some of the takeaways left with voters? Speaking from a personal perspective, very little came of the debates, if anything at all. What I saw was a rehashing of what I had already seen over and over. But of course, I can’t speak for everyone. Some who had been on the fence were persuaded by quick talk and a sense of confidence. Conversely, voters already locked in, so to speak, but watched the debate anyway may have well watched the debate on mute and ad libbed their own thoughts. It’s the first thing we learned. The “debating” aspect of a debate doesn’t matter for anyone who already knows who they’re going to vote for.

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