Do You Like to Watch the Political Debates?

i don't watch 'em myself. 'd send the hubs off into orbit to do such. i'm with ya though 'n don't trust the media to tell me 'bout the candidates. what a pitiful lot to choose from i fear.

I watched one of the Democrats a couple of days ago and enjoyed when they were floored with questions.

I love to watch those too. Like you, I love to see their facial reaction when someone blatantly accuses or giving some facts about the opponents past works. :)

No, I never watch the political debates in TV, here in Europe they are extremely boring.

We do watch both, I like to know what each sides plans are for the future. For one thing, if the side I want does not get in, I like to know what I am in for with the other side. But yes, I do not like the media to decide what was said. Not to mention, sometimes they are quite entertaining and I would not want to miss that!

I also like watching political debates. Been doing it since high school when classmates & good friends became mortal enemies. Now, in our Government? Oh, well. The debates lead me to what name to write come voting day!

As much as I like watching my New England Pats' games, lol. I'm a junkie. I watch them all, including so called "3rd parties". There were also 2 Libertarian party primary debates this weekend, gonna catch those online tomorrow. During the last presidential election, there were 2 debates that got very little publicity in main stream media. It was in the general election. The first night consisted of presidential candidates from the Libertarian, Green, Socialist, constitution and Progressive parties. Of those parties, the Libertarian, Green and Constitution were on enough state ballots for a mathematical win. But you probably never heard anything about any of them. the debate and election systems are a sham. The two big box parties have wielded great power in excluding all other parties from debates, state ballot access and media is culpable in ignoring their existance.

I do watch all the debates and the reporters and even the moderators can sometimes annoy the heck out of me. I don't like the fact that it is the reporters who get to ask all the questions and sometimes their questions don't cover the important issues I want answers on,.

In Indian context, watching a political debate would be the last thing on my mind. They are all filled with junk. Also, no one will budge his/her stand ever. So that makes watching... almost insanity

@DeborahDiane,I have never had the opportunity to watch debates between Presidential candidates.I have watched debates between political leaders in my country India and I hate watching them.They are not solemn and objective.Watching them is wastage of time.

I don't watch debates, but you bring up some good points,

Being on the other side of the world and without cable, I had to settle for live blogs and clips of all the debates. You're right that the media can present slanted views of the whole thing, but they're only doing what we ourselves do without even realizing. Appearance and tone can very easily distract from a core message. I suppose the classic example of this is the Kennedy-Nixon debates - people who watched the debate on TV scored Kennedy a clear winner: those who only heard the debate on radio heavily favored Nixon.

Nope. I never watch anything like that. I read their web pages and check their history.

I enjoy debates of all kinds, but missed last night's Democratic debate due to the baseball game. I did catch up on the news and newspaper, but it wasn't the same.