Next Monday. If you're not watching, you don't care.

[MineralMan]

This first presidential debate is going to hugely important. It will be competing with an NFL Monday Night Football game. It will be competing with boredom on the part of many. Ignore all that.

Watch. Encourage others to watch. Have a watch party.

Next Monday. September 26, 2016. It's important!

The debates will air from 9pm to 10:30pm ET (8pm – 9:30pm CT, 7pm – 8:30pm MT, 6pm – 7:30pm PT)
Read more at http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-debate-schedule/2016-presidential-debate-schedule/#w340KVhL2vEsHvc7.99

[Wounded Bear]

1. Or, you've already made up your mind...

and don't wish to subject yourself to 90 minutes of Trumplethinskin.

I'm sure Clinton will share much that is intelligent, topical and even witty. She will no doubt win the debate on issues, yet I still fear the showmanship of Trump swaying uneducated voters.

[Madam45for2923]

4. http://trumpelthinskin.com/ ~New site

http://trumpelthinskin.com/

[Fla Dem]

36. Thanks. Looks interesting. Good stuff.

[joeybee12]

2. Or, you don't want to damage your tv screen

because the natural urge is to throw something when der trumpenfurher comes on.

People really should be prepared to vote in online and phone polls because the media is itching to call him the winner...this will thwart that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Or, you have work or another commitment and will have to watch video later.

[JHB]

14. +1

[bigwillq]

5. I won't be watching.

I don't like debates.

I'll be watching football Monday, and voting in November.

Have a good day!

[cwydro]

40. ...

[GusBob]

6. Fuck no. Donald and the media want ratings. FUCK THEM BOTH

I am shocked you are shilling for them MM

[MineralMan]

18. How am I shilling for them?

I'm shocked that you are accusing me of doing so.

[GusBob]

34. you are sanctimoniously scolding people into watching the debates as if we dont care

Trump himself is dying for ratings, the moderators have been picked to placate his rancid ass

Its a shit show that I don't care to watch. Dont feel like getting lied to

[Hekate]

25. That is a completely unwarranted accusation, GusBob.

[GusBob]

35. Like accussing people of not caring if they dont watch?

that's bullshit.

[Madam45for2923]

7. I'm definitely watching!

[True Dough]

8. For the record

The Monday night football game is the Falcons and the Saints. Two teams that will likely not make the playoffs, so don't let that stop you from tuning in to the debate!

[MineralMan]

19. Oh, I never watch professional sports.

I'd as soon watch someone fixing a car in a shop...

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. I don't watch debates. I think they're dumb.

I do sometimes watch the commentary on Twitter and DU though

[helpisontheway]

10. I'm not watching it LIVE because it would make my bp go up...I prefer to hang out on DU and read the

updates. Then I watch clips afterwards if comments are good.

[aikoaiko]

11. I dispute the premise that this 'presidential debate', like most others, is actually a debate.

But I'll probably watch. Or at least flip between the game and Donald vs Hillary,.

[whistler162]

12. Sorry well past my bedtime!

[OnDoutside]

31. Me too...2am for me....though will be staying up election night for definite.

[Justice]

13. I am watching it at movie theater with a bunch of other supporters

[MineralMan]

21. Cool!

[Iggo]

15. Bullshit.

I never watch any debates, and I care plenty.

[GeorgeGist]

16. “The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become.

Here is a means to present to the American people a rational exposition of the major issues that face the nation, and the alternate approaches to their solution. Yet the candidates participate only with the guarantee of a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.” - Walter Cronkite.

[MineralMan]

22. Yah, OK, then...

Many people use those debates to decide for whom to vote. That makes them important enough to me to watch.

[Bohunk68]

39. I interpret that as meaning that you have not decided yet.

Fine. I have. Not watching.

[MineralMan]

43. Not at all. Others, however, have not, and that

makes the debates worth watching. You might feel otherwise.

[cwydro]

41. You don't know for whom you're voting yet?

Wow.

[MineralMan]

42. Of course I do. I'm voting for and supporting Hillary Clinton.

I'll be watching the debates so I'll be able to discuss them intelligently. I have always watched the televised debates, starting in 1960. I can't imagine not watching such historical events. Truly.

[Vinca]

17. No. If Trump calls Hillary the "c" word (a possibility) I'm sure I'll hear about it.

I know all I need to know about the candidates. One is sane, the other isn't. No reason to needlessly raise my blood pressure.

[PasadenaTrudy]

20. I'll follow it on twitter n/t

[SaschaHM]

23. I need to remember to pick up some red wine for this.

[Hekate]

24. Hubby will watch all of it, and I will watch as much as I can stomach.

I never in my political life thought that during a campaign I could be as sick at heart as I am at this point.

I anticipated a sense of joy about Hillary running. Instead..... I knew it would be hard-fought, but I never imagined a creature like Trump would get this close to the WH, and with the media aiding and abetting him.

[doc03]

26. No I will not watch I have my mind made up already. I know Trump will make

a mockery of the thing and the media will give a pass. I can't watch it would probably give me a stroke.

[CBGLuthier]

27. Oh Bullshit. WTF is to be gained by watching such a thing?

Not a fan of train wrecks, surgical procedures or torture porn either.


I know absolutely no one who has not made up their mind. This debate will change nothing.

[Lifelong Protester]

33. I wish I could rec your post!

I feel the same way, although I'm sure my spouse will have the debate on while I am at my computer. We live in a tiny house, so I will hear it.

[chillfactor]

29. oh i care...

just cannot stand listening to or looking at t-rump. i will come here instead and read the comments.

[Cooley Hurd]

30. Do what I did in '84, '88 and '92...

I held debate parties for myself and my friends. Had a stocked cooler and plenty of snacks. Right before it started, I handed out those rubber suction-cupped thingies that allowed you to fling them at the screen that would stick as long as there was enough spittle.

Of course, those of us who passed the bong beforehand had trouble with excess spittle.

The upside? Never had to see Reagan/Bush's faces (since they were covered in rubber suction-cups).

The downside? Chiseling dried spittle off my TV.

[stone space]

32. Actually, some of us have made up our minds, already.

Next Monday. If you're not watching, you don't care.

[lovemydog]

37. Thanks for the info MM.

k & r

[tinrobot]

38. I find it very difficult to watch that man...

I'll watch for Clinton, but I may be hitting the "mute" button whenever he spouts off...

[leebaba1992]

44. i'll be muting when Trump is on

thats for sure

[Grammy23]

45. I won't be watching it live...

But it isn't because I don't care. My husband and I have tickets (purchased before debate dates were announced) to see Garrison Keillor. That will be much better for my blood pressure and digestion! We fully intend to vote for HRC as soon as our absentee ballots arrive. And we will be watching the remaining debates.

So please don't assume those who won't see the debate live are uncaring. I will check back in on DU and on Television when we get home from the Keillor show! I am crossing my fingers that Hillary mops the floor with Don the Con.

[Marthe48]

46. We'll watch and mute Orangey

couldn't watch otherwise He has no showmanship. He's like John Goodman in 'O Brother Where Art Thou' Without the vocabulary.

[LeftInTX]

47. I don't really consider it to be a "debate" because Trump doesn't debate

It will be about style over substance.

My husband will watch it and I will catch bits and pieces of it. I will try to get a "feel" for the event.

My mind is already made up. I'm voting for Hillary.

I will follow the factual/transcript details on DU and the Washington Post.

[titaniumsalute]

48. I don't watch the debates

Why? I have a degree in Public Speaking and Debate. What these people do during the "debates" isn't real debate. They lie, they obfuscate, the interrupt, they don't answer questions, they don't debate. It has become a media spectacle.

The pre- and post game of the debates is even more annoying and useless bluster on cable news and somewhat network news.

I'm voting for Hillary...I do care...and I don't like trying to be guilted into watching bullshit.

[phallon]

51. I sympathize

[phallon]

49. Definitely watching

No media filters for me, thanks.

[titaniumsalute]

50. Does Comedy Central still do the comedian voiceovers?? That was always great. NT

[Tarheel_Dem]

52. No thank you. Watching Lester fawn all over DT for 90 minutes is more than flesh & blood can stand.

Even if he's slightly better than Matt Lauer, that's not a high bar to reach. I agree with Nate Silver, Hillary will win the debate, but the media will throw it to Trump, simply because he's been graded on a curve this entire election cycle.

[BlueInPhilly]

53. Nope, not watching

Not because I don't care, but because I cannot stand to listen to that man bob and weave and spin tales.

Instead, I'll be doing what I've done for the last 12 years: go to DU as I live vicariously through all of you.