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6 unusual facts about United States presidential election debates


Five o'clock shadow

Richard Nixon is said to have lost the 1960 presidential election in part due to his five o'clock shadow during the televised United States presidential election debates with John F. Kennedy.

Golden parachute

News reference volume of the term "golden parachute" spiked in late 2008 during the global economic recession, and 2008 US Presidential Debates.

Harriet Van Horne

In 1960 she covered the Nixon-Kennedy debates as a television critic for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.

President of the United States

Nominees participate in nationally televised debates, and while the debates are usually restricted to the Democratic and Republican nominees, third party candidates may be invited, such as Ross Perot in the 1992 debates.

Presidential debate

United States presidential election debates, debates that occur between the main candidates for the American President, often after the primary elections.

Rutgers University Debate Union

On October 22, 2012, RUDU hosted a party with analysis to discuss the third of the United States presidential election debates, 2012.



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