dc.contributor.author | McKinnon, Mark | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-28T14:28:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | McKinnon, Mark. "Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates." Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series 2012.D-67, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 2012. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37376271 | * |
dc.description.abstract | How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858?
Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican presidential primary contenders to a debate he planned to moderate and broadcast over the Christmas holidays. One of a record 30 such debates and forums held or scheduled between May 2011 and March 2012, this, more than any of the previous debates, had the potential to be an embarrassing debacle.
Trump “could do a lot of damage to somebody,” said Karl Rove, the architect of President George W. Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News. “And I suspect it’s not going to be to the candidate that he’s leaning towards. This is a man who says himself that he is going to run—potentially run—for the president of the United States starting next May. Why do we have that person moderating a debate?” | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy | en_US |
dash.license | Pass Through | |
dc.title | Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates | en_US |
dc.type | Research Paper or Report | en_US |
dc.description.version | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-28T14:28:57Z | |