Election Debates
Ian Lising
Election Debates’ verdict: Clegg wins third UK leaders’ debate
Election Debates’ seven-member adjudication panel has give the third UK leaders’ debate to Nick Clegg in a split decision. Three judges gave the debate to Nick Clegg, two to David Cameron and two to Gordon Brown. There was less division about the loser – five judges had Brown last. View the debate here (courtesy of … Continue reading
Election Debates’ verdict: Brown wins second UK Leaders’ Debate
Election Debates’ seven-person panel declares Gordon Brown the winner of the second leaders’ debate in a split decision. Five members of the panel gave the debate to Brown, while two judges gave the debate to Nick Clegg. No one gave the debate to David Cameron. Moreover, six of the judges thought that Cameron was the … Continue reading
Lising: Brown wins second UK leaders’ debate
Judge: Ian Lising Winner: Gordon Brown Scores: Brown 82 | Clegg 79 | Cameron 75 Interestingly enough, Brown started his initial presentation by indicating that the proceedings had the “feel of a popularity contest” and that if style and PR were the goal of the debates that we could just “count him out.” This was … Continue reading
Election Debates’ experts on the UK debate rules
We asked Election Debate experts for some brief observations about the 76-point plan for UK leader debates, agreed by parties and producers earlier this week. Read the 76-point programme format here. Tommy Tonner: This is a ridiculous format which tries badly to import a presidential style debate into a parliamentary system. Two main objections, the … Continue reading
Obama wins third presidential debate: Lising
Judge: Ian Lising Winner: Obama Scores: Obama 82 | McCain 81 Reasons: It should be mentioned that of all debates that have been held in this election cycle, this round had the most amount of direct clash and actual refutation taking place. Though some might think that Mr. Wurzelbacher, now forever immortalised as ‘Joe the … Continue reading
Biden wins vice presidential debate: Lising
Judge: Ian Lising Winner: Biden Scores: Biden 82 | Palin 75 Reasons: This debate was almost a non-starter for me when Governor Palin a few minutes in said ‘And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people and … Continue reading
Obama wins first presidential debate: Lising
Judge: Ian Lising Winner: Obama Scores: McCain 78 | Obama 82 Reasons There were awkward times in the debate where both candidates would simply redirect the issues to their campaign lines even though they were clearly not responsive to the moderator’s lead question (nor even the theme that they had just been discussing seconds before they launched … Continue reading
