Are you going to watch Biden-Trump debate Thursday?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Me, most likely.

[DavidW]

Yes, I hate being back in this place again of watching Biden and Trump debate, but here we are and it is important.

[brewski]

Yes, definitely watching (with thoughts similar to David's), though frankly, I prefer "debate" in quotation marks.

-Bruce

[VonStupp]

No. I know exactly where each candidate stands.

Both have been president, so I don't expect anything more or less from either of them for the next presidential cycle. I really don't believe a debate is necessary between these two, other than mere spectacle.
VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

No. I know exactly where each candidate stands.

Both have been president, so I don't expect anything more or less from either of them for the next presidential cycle. I really don't believe a debate is necessary between these two, other than mere spectacle.
VS

Very good (and rational) opinion.

[Karl Henning]

Won't watch it live.

[atardecer]

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." - Frank Zappa

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt

I suspect these two statements to be true therefore I think my answer is 'Not Sure', which also happens to be the name of a character in the movie Idiocracy, something that seems somehow relevant here.

[Holden]

What does a one off debate prove? SFA!

[Spotted Horses]

No. I know exactly where each candidate stands.

Both have been president, so I don't expect anything more or less from either of them for the next presidential cycle. I really don't believe a debate is necessary between these two, other than mere spectacle.
VS

The dismal state of affairs is that both candidates claim that the other suffers dementia. The debate will at least give each candidate a chance to prove he is not senile. I doubt I would watch even if I could (I can't). I will have to be satisfied with the tabulation of gaffs that will appear the next morning.

[AnotherSpin]

In this puppet theatre, the real contest is between the remnants of the concept of the free world and the new powerful global force of autocracy. The problem is that one "candidate" is too weak and the other too convoluted. The winners of the US election may well already be known, they are Xi and his vassal Pu.

[Florestan]

The dismal state of affairs is that both candidates claim that the other suffers dementia.

Yes but so far only one of them has publicly displayed behavior and talk which might be seen as symptoms of senility. Honestly, I am absolutely shocked that the party of Kennedy, Clinton and Obama could not come up with a younger and healthier alternative.

[steve ridgway]

Is anyone in America undecided?

[Karl Henning]

Is anyone in America undecided?

As the Mid-terms showed, there really is a Middle of the electorate which will determine the outcome. They paid attention to the January 6 hearings, and to the results of the Convicted Felon's several trials, so I expect they will mark the debate, as well. Oh, and the consistently significant "Anyone but Trump, please" protest vote in the Republican primaries, even well after all of the non-diapered opponents had officially ended their campaigns.

[Karl Henning]

Honestly, I am absolutely shocked that the party of Kennedy, Clinton and Obama could not come up with a younger and healthier alternative.

The choice between two old white dudes is scarcely the ideal, but I think that Biden's experience and concomitant talent for getting things done has been the major factor. There is younger talent in the Party, but as yet none of the "youngsters" has had any knack for appealing to the aforementioned Middle. Hopefully they will learn, sooner rather than later.

[VonStupp]

I doubt I would watch even if I could (I can't). I will have to be satisfied with the tabulation of gaffs that will appear the next morning.

Aye; I fear it will be unavoidable.
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[steve ridgway]

As the Mid-terms showed, there really is a Middle of the electorate which will determine the outcome. They paid attention to the January 6 hearings, and to the results of the Convicted Felon's several trials, so I expect they will mark the debate, as well. Oh, and the consistently significant "Anyone but Trump, please" protest vote in the Republican primaries, even well after all of the non-diapered opponents had officially ended their campaigns.

Oh that's good, it seemed odd to have a country divided so evenly that the result could be disputed.

[Brian]

No. I am a decided voter and won't learn anything. Certainly will not learn anything that outweighs the irritation and stress of having to watch them. Basically, what VonStupp says.

Yes but so far only one of them has publicly displayed behavior and talk which might be seen as symptoms of senility. Honestly, I am absolutely shocked that the party of Kennedy, Clinton and Obama could not come up with a younger and healthier alternative.

See, in the first sentence, I thought you were talking about the other one.

[Spotted Horses]

Yes but so far only one of them has publicly displayed behavior and talk which might be seen as symptoms of senility. Honestly, I am absolutely shocked that the party of Kennedy, Clinton and Obama could not come up with a younger and healthier alternative.

Biden has a life-long stutter and has been a gaff machine for all of his political life. I have come across numerous essays by clinical psychiatrists who point out that Trump's use of language has shown marked deterioration. He also has the intellectual acumen of a man who would remark about George Washington "You know, they thought he had slaves. Actually I think he probably didn't." George Washington is one of the most well known figures in American history, was possibly the wealthiest plantation owner in the country and owned more than 300 slaves at his death. In his will he freed one.

In my opinion, neither candidate has the physical stamina for this extremely demanding job. One is dangerous.

Now we are on a forbidden subject.

[DavidW]

Is anyone in America undecided?

Welcome to American politics... yes and they determine who wins.  A small fraction of undecided voters in the swing states will decide the election.  That is really what all this is about... the debates, marketing, marketing in all but name from Fox News and MSNBC... it is about persuading that small fraction of people who really determine the outcome of the election.

[Todd]

Is anyone in America undecided?

Yes.  The opinions and votes of most of them will not matter.  Only undecided voters in a subset of swing states may be able to influence the outcome, as David mentioned.  The number of states ranges between seven and thirteen, depending on source.  Thirteen is of course the number of colonies, and it is also the number of states needed to kill a Constitutional Amendment.  It is a lucky number.

One is dangerous.

Both are dangerous.  Current US foreign policy conclusively demonstrates that.