Clinton-Trump Debate Showdown

Highly recommend this excellent piece from James Fallows. He looks at the ways in which past presidential and vice-presidential debates have been won or lost, and it’s often been not so much a question of substance as of the candidate fitting within — or confounding — pre-existing narratives.

He also takes an in-depth look at four key Trump attributes that will be at play in the debates: simplicity (of both spoken language and body language), ignorance, dominance, and gender.

He discusses how each candidate can win and lose the debates.

Really worth a read.